Spherion

Spherion was first known as City Car Unloaders, a Chicago{{cite book

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|date=December 18, 1990}} They initially placed manual laborers in temporary jobs loading cargo. Filling temporary clerk jobs was a service the company only later added.

[http://www.spherion.com/about_us/history.jsp History: Spherion: A Pioneer in Staffing & Workforce Management] Spherion Official Site

The company relocated from Chicago to Fort Lauderdale in 1969.

By 1978, the firm was doing business as Personnel Pool of America, Inc, and was acquired by H&R Block. 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. Interim

and successor-named Spherion acquired a number of other companies over the next few years.

The company, which changed its name to Spherion in 2000,{{cite magazine |magazine=Forbes |url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2001/1126/089.html |title=Desperate Times |author=Joanne Gordan}} was acquired by Randstad NV in July 2011.{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times | url=https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/randstad-to-buy-sfn-for-710-million | title=Randstad to Buy SFN for $710 Million |author=Michael J. de la Merced | date=July 20, 2011}}{{cite web | url=http://www.randstad.com/about-us/company-information/history | title=History |accessdate=July 9, 2013 |url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130630044421/http://www.randstad.com/about-us/company-information/history | archivedate=June 30, 2013}} Randstad Official Site

Spherion has done business under a variety of brand names. The following brands are more or less current: Emerging Workforce, The Mergis Group,[http://www.mergisgroup.com/About_Mergis/SFN.jsp Staffing and Recruiting Excellence SFN Group: Staffing and Recruiting Excellence] The Mergis Group Official Site[https://archive.today/20130201055942/http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS152089+21-Apr-2008+PRN20080421 Survey by the Mergis Group Shows Decline in Overall Confidence for Accounting and... | Reuters] SFN Group, Sourceright Solutions,[http://www.sourcerightsolutions.com/about_sourceright_sfn.html SFN Group: Industry Leaders for 60 Years] Sourceright Official Site Spherion, Spherion Recruitment Process Outsourcing,{{cite news |newspaper=Sun-Sentinel | url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2001-08-03-0108020950-story.html | title=Spherion to tap Outsourcing | author=Marcia Heroux Pounds}} Spherion Staffing Services,[http://www.spherion.com/about_us/co_overview.jsp About Us: Spherion: Recruiting & Staffing Excellence] Spherion Official Site Tatum,[http://www.tatumllc.com/about/Tatum-SFN.asp Tatum & SFN Group: Tatum is a division of SFN Group, Inc.] Tatum Official Site Technisource[http://www.technisource.com/About/SFN_Group.jsp SFN Group: Built On A Foundation Of Strength; About SFN Group] Technisource Official Site Victor Temporary Services, Professional Nurses Bureau, and Today's Office Professionals.[https://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=SFN SFN: Profile for SPHERION CORP - SGN Group Inc] Yahoo! FINANCE

Cinda Hallman, a member of Spherion's board of directors beginning in early 1995,{{cite web | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2001-04-10/spherion-announces-dupont-executive-to-be-new-president-and-ceo | title=Spherion Announces Dupont Executive to Be New President and CEO | website=Bloomberg News |date=April 10, 2001}} replaced Raymond Marcy as Chief Executive Officer in 2001, a role that Marcy had held for over a decade.{{cite news |newspaper=Sun-Sentinel | url=http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2001-04-11-0104100938-story.html | title=Spherion replaces CEO amid an earnings slide | author=Joan Fleischer Tamen |date=April 11, 2001}} Rebecca Rogers Tijerino became the CEO of Spherion in January 2019. Rogers Tijerino left the company and was replaced by Kathy George in February 2024.{{Cite web |title=Spherion Staffing and Recruiting Names Kathy George President {{!}} Spherion |url=https://www.spherion.com/press/news-about-spherion/spherion-staffing-recruiting-names-kathy-george-president/ |access-date=2024-09-24 |website=www.spherion.com |language=en}}

An "acquisition spree" that began in 199426 firms, 1994-2001 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.

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

{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/20/business/company-news-spherion-will-take-its-london-subsidiary-public.html | title=Spherion will take its London subsidiary public |date=January 20, 2001}}

Spherion sold its Saratoga Institute to PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2003.{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/05/business/spherion-unit-is-acquired.html | title=Spherion Unit Is Acquired |date=March 5, 2003}}

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