A temporary staffing agency that employs their workers as W2 employees for service jobs from warehouse work to produce pickers and packers to data entry personnel.
The “on-demand” workforce has significantly increased over the last two years. Giving way to more and more freelancers, who now make up 35% of the U.S. workforce, and that number is expected to grow.
you’ve ever been in between jobs and had to look for temporary employment, you’ve probably reached out to a staffing agency. You’ve also probably learned the kinds of jobs that these agencies typically recruit for; it’s a lot of paper pushing in law firms, filing, answering phones, and other basic office work that does not require a lot of training. Typically, these jobs are white-collar (albeit low-level), stock-up-on-khakis-because-you’ll-be-wearing-them-a-lot kind of jobs. However, until recently, there wasn’t a one-stop-shop for temporary blue collar positions. Now there is BlueCrew to fill that gap. BlueCrew launched in April 2015 as an on-demand, data-driven staffing platform for blue-collar jobs. In the 11 months since their launch they’ve received $3 million in funding from investors including Y Combinator, Index Ventures, Sound Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures and Stanford StartX. They’ve also recently announced some feature additions and upgrades