Temporary employment agency activities

Risk Level Moderate 2.6/5 overall
Strategies 37 frameworks applied
Active Risks 2 data-confirmed

Temporary staffing services provide businesses with short-term workers to meet fluctuating demand or cover absences. These services are vital across many sectors, ranging from administrative support to specialized technical roles. The sector faces notable market obsolescence and substitution risk, particularly from gig economy platforms.

Structural Position · Infrastructure Hub
This industry supports the economy horizontally — not upstream or downstream in any specific chain, but beneath all...
79
industries
depending on this
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What's Happening Now

Live risk signals and macro forces shaping this industry.

Systemic Importance Score
This industry's real risk profile extends far beyond its own GTIAS score

Temporary employment agency activities scores 2.6 / 5.0 on the GTIAS risk scale. But 79 of 422 profiled industries (19%) list this as a supporting dependency. A systemic event here does not create one risk scenario — it creates 79 simultaneous ones, each cascading through a different value chain. This gap between self-assessment score and systemic reach is invisible in standard industry analysis.

79
Industries depending on this
19%
Of all profiled industries
2.6
Own GTIAS risk score
Risk Signals

Confirmed Active Risks 2

Triggered by this industry's attribute scores — data-confirmed risk conditions.

Where It Sits in the Economy

Upstream inputs, downstream outputs, and supply chain membership based on global input-output flows.

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Enabling Service

This industry operates as a horizontal service layer across all chains — not occupying a fixed supply chain step, but providing critical infrastructure to all sectors simultaneously.

Upstream Supply Risk 2.6 / 5.0 Moderate
Upstream Supply Resilience 2.4 / 5.0 Solid

About This Industry

Sub-Sectors

  • 7820: Temporary employment agency activities

Industry Type

SVC industries should not be penalised for low RP and SU scores — these are structurally appropriate for human service businesses. The meaningful risks are in Market Dynamics (MD: 2.98 mean), workforce elasticity (CS08),...

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Industry Classification
ISIC Rev. 4 7820 Class UN International Standard Industrial Classification
National Classification Equivalents
ANZSIC 2006 7212 Labour Supply Services
NACE Rev. 2 78.20 Temporary employment agency activities and other human resource provisions
NAICS 2022 561320 Temporary Help Services

Structural Position

Cross-sector analytical lenses applied to this industry's 81-attribute GTIAS scorecard, and which structurally similar industries share its risk DNA despite operating in entirely different sectors.

This industry does not trigger any of the five structural lenses under current GTIAS scoring.

Cross-Sector Structural Twins

Industries from entirely different sectors with near-identical GTIAS risk fingerprints — strategies that work in one often transfer directly to the other.

Common Challenges

Structural decision problems that apply to this industry — computed from GTIAS scores and connected to specific frameworks and implementation playbooks.

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Broader capabilities: CS01

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