Workplace Mosaics
The New World of Work

Today’s workplace is a myriad of employer and employee options, an environment revolutionized by worker’s demands for flexible scheduling and competitive pressures on businesses adapting to a global economy and rising costs.

Because of factors beyond their control, employer and employee loyalty has been compromised. The premise of a 9-to-5 job lasting for twenty plus years has become a rarity. However, the upside is that changing worker demands are well suited to the new business climate. The cost savings of utilizing contract consultants, contingent staffers and flextime workers changes the cost of personnel from a fixed cost to a flexible one. Employers faced with cost increases across the board and global competition find that their ability to creatively deploy their human resources in new ways results in an economically sound business strategy. Since most companies experience peaks and valleys in their business cycle, keeping workers on their own payroll in downturns is hard to justify.

However sensible these transitions seem, they always threaten the momentum of growth. But, not surprisingly, American businesses and their employees are facing the challenges of transition and are well equipped to meet them. The American workforce is still the most productive in the world and for the most part American businesses remain dominant in the global marketplace.

The new workplace is complex and COMFORCE partners with our client companies to help them more effectively meet the multiple challenges which they are faced with such as:

• Competing in a global economy
• Constantly rising business expenses
• Wage and benefit pressures
• Accelerating demand for speed of delivery
• Advances in manufacturing and technology
• Low unemployment
• Shortages of skilled workers
• High turnover and an eroding work ethic
• New Employment legislation and resulting legal exposures
• Higher recruiting costs

COMFORCE and the contingent staffing industry have been major factors in helping business adapt to change. Our industry rose to 130 billion dollars in revenue in the year 2006 and is forecasted for double digit growth in 2007. The following web pages containing our 2006 Annual Report will give you a profile of how COMFORCE is helping our contingent employees and client companies to thrive in the new world of work.