New research by the World Employment Confederation (previously known as Ciett) has again revealed sales revenue growth for European recruitment agencies across all of the countries in which data was collected.

Continuing a trend from the September data, according to the October 2016 Agency Business Indicator, year-on-year turnover agency revenue rose in all of the eight markets covered. Revenues were again greatest in Poland and Finland, with turnover up by 17% and 14% respectively.

Based on data from Confederation members in nine countries, but excluding the UK, for which no such data is available, the number of hours worked by agency workers rose by an average of 2.8% year-on-year.

Italy (-10.3%) was once again below the average, while Denmark saw the growth in hours worked by agency workers increase by 10.3%, more than any of the countries where data was collected for second consecutive month.

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