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We all know that the top public staffing firms have seen revenue drop 30% year over year. And, private staffers aren’t having a much better go of things. Then, Barry brought us all down last week with the announcement that his London Cabbie Index is at an all time low. So, enough bad news. Here’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-trends-and-insights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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