The State of Hourly and High-volume Hiring 2022

Optimize recruiting strategies for high-volume hiring success

Hourly workers account for a whopping 73.3 million workers, ages 16 or over, in the United States. The recruitment of these hourly earners— along with seasonal hires, tipped labor and contingent workers—represents a talent-acquisition category that can often be collectively categorized as “high-volume recruiting.”

Although hourly employees represent 56% of all wage and salary workers in the U.S, this topic is often neglected in studies about talent acquisition (TA).

HR Research Institute, in its latest survey, "State of High-volume and Hourly Hiring 2022", attempts to learn the various types of recruitment activities organizations engage in, how much they plan to invest in high-volume recruiting, how often organizations engage in high-volume recruiting, do they outsource any part of high-volume recruitment to other entities, and more.

Top findings from the survey:

Finding #1: The majority of organizations engage in multiple types of recruitment activities

Roughly three-quarters of respondents say their organizations are engaged in these recruitment activities:
 

• internal recruitment
• employee referrals
• recruitment of hourly workers
• high-volume recruitment

Finding #2: About two-thirds use a staffing agency for high-volume recruiting

Of the organizations that outsource some or all of the high-volume recruitment process, 63% use a staffing agency for this purpose. One interesting development is that 57% rely on online talent platforms, making them more frequently cited than the more traditional methods of RPOs (54%), BPOs (44%) and temp agencies (40%).  

Finding #3: Nearly all respondents say their organization will continue to engage in high-volume recruiting over the next two years

Virtually all (97%) will continue to engage in high-volume recruiting in some capacity over the next two years. Nearly two-thirds (64%) of the respondents will do so by relying primarily on their in-house recruiting team and 35% said they will outsource at least part of the task.

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