Spherion

Industry	Recruitment
Founded	1946
Founder	Leroy Dettman
Headquarters	Atlanta, Georgia, US
Key people	Rebecca Rogers Tijerino (CEO)
Owner	Randstad Holding
Website	www.spherion.com

Spherion ^[1] is a North American temporary work agency ^{[2] [3]} headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, that operates under a variety of brand names. ^[2]

History

Spherion was first known as City Car Unloaders, a Chicago ^{[4] [5] [6]} company created by Leroy Dettman and Joseph Perfetto in 1946. ^{[2] [7] [8]} They initially placed manual laborers in temporary jobs loading cargo. ^[4] Filling temporary clerk jobs was a service the company only later added. ^[4]

The company relocated from Chicago to Fort Lauderdale in 1969. ^[8]

By 1978, the firm was doing business as Personnel Pool of America, Inc, and was acquired by H&R Block. ^[8] In 1991, H&R Block acquired Interim Systems Corporation and combined it with Personnel Pool, creating a larger staffing services firm.

In 1992, the company changed its name to Interim Services Inc., and was spun off by H&R Block in 1994. ^[9] Interim ^[10] acquired a number of other companies over the next few years. ^[11]

The company, which changed its name to Spherion in 2000, ^{[9] [11]} was acquired by Randstad Holding in July 2011. ^{[12] [13]}

Brands

Spherion has done business under a variety of brand names. The following brands are more or less current: Emerging Workforce, ^[2] The Mergis Group, ^{[2] [3] [14] [15]} SFN Group, ^[2] Sourceright Solutions, ^{[2] [3] [16]} Spherion, Spherion Recruitment Process Outsourcing, ^{[2] [17]} Spherion Staffing Services, ^[3] Tatum, ^{[3] [18]} Technisource ^{[2] [3] [19]} Victor Temporary Services, ^[8] Professional Nurses Bureau, ^[8] and Today's Office Professionals. ^{[2] [3]}

Leadership

Cinda Hallman, a member of Spherion's board of directors beginning in early 1995, ^[20] replaced Raymond Marcy as Chief Executive Officer in 2001, a role that Marcy had held for over a decade. ^[11] Rebecca Rogers Tijerino became the CEO of Spherion in January 2019.

Acquisitions and spinoffs

An "acquisition spree" that began in 1994 ^[21] led to Spherion's 1999 acquiring of an Atlanta-based rival. Norrell Corp. Part of Fort Lauderdale-based Spherion's board of directors wanted to move corporate headquarters to Atlanta, a conflict that ended when Marcy was replaced by Hallman in 2001. ^[11]

In 2001 Spherion made an initial public offering (IPO) of its London-based Michael Page Group, which it acquired in 1997. ^[22]

Spherion sold its Saratoga Institute to PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2003. ^[23]

References

External links

• Official website