Companies feeling more confident in their short-term perseverance while still concerned about their long term prospects are increasingly turning to temporary staffing to fill gaps in their workforces. As a result, those temp agencies that survived the first part of the recession are now seeing increased business, as well as more aggressive dealings with both clients and their remaining competitors.
See "Temporary employment agencies see an uptick", Cyndia Zwahlen, Los Angeles Times, January 16, 2011