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Date: March 23, 2001 at 11:42:35
From: webmaster,
Subject: Those Other Temp Web Sites |
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www.Temp24-7.com was created by a guy who was head of a movie/tv production company. The intent of the site, along with other sites that this company owned, was apparently to develop Temp24-7 for eventually being a movie or tv series.
Flypaper Press, the original company behind the site, has developed many other such properties including Bohos, which apparently now has a production deal.
Now the thing is that this guy created a FICTIONAL product in which Temps were the victim underdogs and Temp Agencies and Clients were the villans. This was a fiction for a movie. The reality is that the industry turn over rate for temps is more than 400%, essentially very few people temp long enough to even be victims or to be interested in forming unions (add to this the fact that any asshole can create a temp agency for about $100.0).
The only problem now is that four or five hard-up lonely people see this fiction as something that adds meaning to their *ucking lives. These people have been camped out at temp24-7.com message boad for more than three years posting under various names. One thing in Temp24-7.com's defense is that the site IS listed as ENTERTAINMENT and the company does not appear to have any relationship with the hard-ups posting at the message board. Unlike at www.tempnyc.com, where the site owners appear to be the ones faking posts (and copying the same failed business model that led to Flypaper Press going out of business).
If you look at the temp24-7.com message board you would think that there are hundreds of people posting there. In fact, its only four or five people. These four or five people even appear to CREATE a temp agency persona from time to time so that they can argue with this fabricated entity.
The harm here is that people who are interested in temping and the PRESS will look at this shit and think that these are real temps and real temp experiences. In fact, of the four or five people posting there, none seem to actually be temps.
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Date: April 14, 2001 at 23:06:12
From: webmaster,
Subject: Long-Term Temps: A Rare Breed |
URL: epf.org |
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"Temporary help employment is not common, and long-term temporary help employees are even more rare. Temporary help employees with more than 24 months of tenure-about 170,000 workers-constitute about 0.1 percent of the workforce. Given the fact that there are over a million temporary help employees currently, and many more work in temp jobs at some point during the course of a year, the number of long-term temps is remarkably low. Moreover, these long-term temporary help employees are more likely than other temps to be in “good” temporary jobs-jobs that they prefer, that pay well and offer employment benefits."
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Date: March 23, 2001 at 12:05:39
From: Marion,
Subject: Why Would The New York Times Cite Temp24-7 and Ignore Net-Temps |
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In an article on temping once, the NY Times cited temp24-7.com and tempnyc.com (two harmless fictions) but never mentions www.net-temps.com
From what we can see, www.net-temps.com is THE biggest fish in the temp website pond and it's significant even in the general jobs board pond. HotJobs.com is even planning to compete with the Net-Temps business model with the creation of it's Agency Exchange (tm) program.
Almost every temp agency seems to be registered with Net-Temps and there are hundreds of jobs posted every day for New York City and the rest of the nation.
The fact is, there seems to have never ever been any mention of Net-temps in the NY Times. When it comes to classified ad sales, Net-Temps would appear to be the biggest comepetition to the NY TIMES Sunday Classified Section which has by far the largest chunck of temp agency advertising dollars in New York
The NY Times makes a great deal of money from temp agency advertisement, so much so that the NY Times even played host to a temp agency convention in NYC.
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Date: April 13, 2001 at 18:20:59
From: webmaster,
Subject: New York Times to cut jobs, citing ad market |
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By Derek Caney
NEW YORK, April 12 (Reuters) - The New York Times Co. , one of the world's most influential newspaper publishers, on Thursday said it will cut staff across all of its business units in response to the deteriorating advertising market and the weaker economic outlook.
http://www.smartmoney.com/news/RM/index.cfm?story=RM-20010412-N12120219
© Reuters 2001
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Date: March 24, 2001 at 19:07:49
From: Marion,
Subject: Online Job Sites Attract Traffic From Newspapers |
URL: Yahoo News |
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Copyright Yahoo News
Saturday March 24 11:57 AM ET
Online Job Sites Attract Traffic From Newspapers
By Sarah Rose
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Although online job sites are suffering as the U.S. economy slows, analysts say they may weather the downturn as they steal revenue from newspaper classified ads.
Analysts who follow recruitment sites such as Monster.com, a unit of TMP Worldwide Inc. (NasdaqNM:TMPW - news), and HotJobs.com Inc. (NasdaqNM:HOTJ - news) worry that the collapse of the dot-com companies will mean fewer firms paying to post job advertisements, just as the number of people looking for work increases.
TMP Worldwide closed at $41-3/8 on Friday, well off a 52-week high of $91, though the company has outperformed the technology-laden Nasdaq stock market by 18 percent over the past year. HotJobs.com, which has trailed the Nasdaq by 47 percent, closed at $5-1/4 on Friday, off its year high of $31-7/8.
``The market seems to be coming to the conclusion that as the economy comes down, (online) advertising for jobs will come down, as has historically been the case with newspaper classified ads,'' said Thatcher Thompson, an analyst with Goldman Sachs.
But Thompson said he expected the companies would continue to grow. ``There's one big caveat and that is the ongoing transition from newspaper classifieds to online boards,'' he said.
Traffic at Internet recruiting sites has increased by nearly 40 percent over a year ago, according to data collected by research firm Jupiter Media Metrix.
Yet analysts worry that without an economic ``soft landing'' the number of companies hiring will not keep pace with the number of new job seekers hitting the sites.
``Its clear that the economy is much worse than expected and this could have a negative impact on job boards,'' said Andrea Williams Rice, analyst with Deutsche Banc Alex Brown.
Recruiting online allows companies to reach a broader audience than newspapers alone, analysts say.
``Corporations now understand the model,'' of online recruiting said Christopher Boone, an analyst with research firm IDC. ``It's cheaper, reaches a broader audience, and niche audiences,'' such as Information Technology workers.
And the implosion of dot-com companies which once advertised heavily on the boards may be a boon for more established firms that have had a difficult time filling skilled technical positions, analysts say.
``The cut-backs in Internet related industries created a large available talent pool that knows how to find things online, including jobs,'' Marc Engel, an analyst with Alexa Research, a unit of Amazon.com (NasdaqNM:AMZN - news), said recently.
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