Adecco
The Adecco Group
Swiss multinational human resource consulting company
The Adecco Group is a Swiss–French[2] company based in Zürich, Switzerland. It is the world's second largest human resources provider and temporary staffing firm.[3] It is a Fortune Global 500 company[4] and is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.
Services offered by the group include temporary staffing, permanent job placement, career transition, and talent development in the office, industrial, technical, financial, and legal sectors, as well as business process outsourcing and consulting. As of 2021[update] the company had placed 115,000 workers in full time employment and had 500,000 workers in temporary roles daily.[1] It operates three global business units: Adecco, Akkodis,[5] and LHH. Its operating brands include Badenoch & Clark, DIS AG, General Assembly, Innovation Foundation, Lee Hecht Harrison, Modis, Pontoon, Spring Professional, and Yoss.[6][7]
The company was formed on 1 January 1997 by the merger of the French company Ecco, founded in Lyon in 1957, and the Swiss company Adia Interim, founded in Lausanne in 1957 as Adia.[8]