The Adecco Group is a Swiss human resource consulting firm and temporary staffing agency headquartered in Zurich. It was formed in 1996 as the result of a merger of the Swiss staffing company Adia Interim with the French company Ecco. As of 2019, Adecco Group is the world’s largest employment agency and temporary staffing firm.
The Adecco Group manages a wide variety of HR services and brands around the world. Their brands provide staffing, career transition, talent development, and outsourcing solutions across many industries and skill levels. Here is an overview of the major brands that make up the Adecco Group:
Adecco
Adecco is the Group’s flagship global staffing brand. Adecco provides temporary, contract, and permanent placement services to candidates and employers in over 60 countries and territories. It offers staffing solutions across many sectors including industrial, office, engineering, finance, IT and more. Some focus areas for Adecco are clerical and administrative, light industrial, insurance, accounting, call centers, etc.
Adia
Adia is Adecco’s original brand name, used for its founding Swiss staffing business. After the 1996 merger that created the Adecco Group, most Adia branches took the global Adecco brand name. Adia continues operations in Switzerland and a few other European markets such as France and Italy.
Ajilon
Ajilon is the Adecco Group’s brand focused on professional staffing and solutions in North America. Ajilon provides temporary, contract, and permanent recruiting and placement for professional roles like accounting, finance, IT, engineering, healthcare, HR, legal, and more. Ajilon operates through over 100 branch offices across the U.S. and Canada.
LHH
LHH (Lee Hecht Harrison) is the Adecco Group’s global career transition, talent development, and recruitment solutions brand. LHH helps organizations restructure and transition displaced talent. It provides services like career coaching, leadership development, assessments, and more to employees impacted by restructuring. LHH also does talent recruitment for specialized professional roles.
Modis
Modis provides IT, engineering, and life sciences staffing services. It specializes in placing qualified candidates in temporary, temp-to-permanent, and permanent IT and engineering jobs. Modis operates in over 20 countries with a focus on North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific regions.
Pontoon
Pontoon is the Adecco Group’s brand focused on contingent and permanent workforce solutions in the U.S. Pontoon partners with employers to deliver on-site and managed services programs. It’s specialized in managing large, complex workforce solutions and services procurement programs for organizations.
Spring Professional
Spring Professional is the Adecco Group’s professional staffing brand in Asia and Eastern Europe, with operations in over 10 countries. It provides temporary, contract, and permanent placement services for mid to senior level accounting & finance, banking & insurance, IT, engineering, healthcare, and other professionals.
Adecco Training
Adecco Training provides workforce development and vocational training services in France. It helps job seekers receive training and find work through temporary or permanent job placements after completing training.
Adecco Integration
Adecco Integration assists disabled or disadvantaged groups find temporary and permanent employment in France through adapted training and job coaching.
Adecco Medical
A specialized temporary staffing brand in France providing temporary staff for the healthcare and hospital sector including doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals.
Beyond
Beyond (formerly Tuja Zeitarbeit) is a German temporary staffing firm specialized in commercial and administrative roles which was acquired by the Adecco Group in 2009.
Creyf’s Interim
An industrial temporary staffing firm in Belgium acquired by the Adecco Group in 2011.
General Assembly
General Assembly provides short-term courses, bootcamps, workshops and other training programs focused on high-demand digital skills like data, coding, design, marketing and business. Acquired by Adecco in 2018.
Vettery
Vettery is an online talent recruitment platform that matches top professionals with leading employers. Acquired by the Adecco Group in 2018.
Pymetrics
Pymetrics applies neuroscience games and AI to talent matching. Its talent matching tools use AI and behavioral science to help companies better evaluate, onboard and retain high performing hires. The Adecco Group partnered with pymetrics in 2019.
Specialty Brands
The Adecco Group also operates country-specific specialty HR services brands for temporary staffing and permanent placement such as:
- Altedia – Technology focused staffing (Italy)
- DtL – Engineering recruitment (Germany)
- Spring – Banking and financial services recruitment (UK)
- Adecco Automotive – Automotive industry staffing (Germany)
- Badenoch & Clark – High-end permanent recruitment (UK)
- Pontoon Solutions – Managed Service Provider (MSP) programs (Global)
Conclusion
The Adecco Group’s wide portfolio of staffing, workforce solutions, career transition, and talent development brands allows it to serve diverse workforce needs for both clients and candidates across industries, skill levels and geographies. The company has expanded and diversified its brand portfolio through strategic acquisitions adding capabilities in areas like online staffing platforms, digital skills bootcamps, neuroscience-based assessments and more.
