{"id":1189,"date":"2020-12-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aquent.com\/news\/the-broken-business-model-of-staffing-agencies\/"},"modified":"2023-02-24T17:57:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T22:57:55","slug":"the-broken-business-model-of-staffing-agencies","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/aquent.com\/en-nl\/news\/the-broken-business-model-of-staffing-agencies","title":{"rendered":"The broken business model of staffing agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n<blockquote class=\"blockquote\" id=\"block_2ca61d9b3c1ccc159587fcf206a60190\">\n    <div><span><\/span><\/div>\n    <p>&#8220;Our industry needs to start separating recruitment and employment.\u201d <\/p>\n    <cite class=\"blockquote__attribution\">\n                    <span class=\"blockquote__name\">JOHN CHUANG \/ CEO, AQUENT<\/span>\n                    <\/cite>\n<\/blockquote><!-- #block_2ca61d9b3c1ccc159587fcf206a60190 -->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Staffing companies are giving away the service they're known for the most (recruitment) and charging for a service they don't do particularly well (employment). It is time for a change. Our industry needs to start separating recruitment and employment \u2014 from how we structure our services to our pricing models to client agreements. We need to start investing more in employment services so that we're actually adding value for our clients. We need to devote resources to treating talent as the employees they are instead of treating them as an afterthought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aquent CEO argues it's time for change that adds value for clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1395,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":""},"class_list":["post-1189","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO Pro 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Aquent CEO argues it\u2019s time for change that adds value for clients.\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aquent.com\/en-nl\/news\/the-broken-business-model-of-staffing-agencies\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO Pro (AIOSEO) 5.0.3\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" 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