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Kelly Services, Inc.
Formerly
  • Russell Kelly Office Service
  • Kelly Girl Service, Inc.
Company typePublic
Nasdaq: KELYA (Class A)
S&P 600 Component
IndustryProfessional services
Founded1946; 78 years ago (1946)
FounderWilliam Russell Kelly
Headquarters999 West Big Beaver Road,
Troy, Michigan
,
United States
Areas served
  • North and South America
  • AsiaPacific
  • Europe, the Middle East, and Africa
Key people
  • Terence E. Adderley (Executive Chairman)[1]
  • Carl T. Camden (President and CEO)
Services
Revenue$5.5 billion[2] (2015)
$67 million[2] (2015)
Number of employees
7,800[3] (2017)
Websitewww.kellyservices.com

Kelly Services, Inc. (formerly Russell Kelly Office Service and Kelly Girl Service, Inc.) is an American office staffing company that operates globally.[2][4][5][6] The company places employees at all levels in various sectors including financial services, information technology, and law.[4] Also, its professional services include human resource and management consulting, outsourcing, recruitment, career transition, and vendor management.[2][4] Kelly Services was founded by William Russell Kelly in 1946 and is headquartered in Troy, Michigan.[2][7] In 2015, the company reported 8,100 employees, $5.5 billion in revenue, and placed 550,000 employees to work in positions in various sectors,[2][4] making it one of the world's largest staffing firms.[8]

History

Founded in 1946 by William Russell Kelly, the company was originally named Russell Kelly Office Servce. [9][10] Services were provided in-house at the Kelly office. However, as customer offices grew and needed more resources, they began to ask for the Kelly employees to perform the work at their own offices. This business model led to Mr. Kelly being credited with the pioneering of the modern temporary staffing industry, and temporary workers from Russell Kelly Office Service soon became known as ‘Kelly Girls’.[11] Adelaide Hess Moran, the first Kelly temporary employee to work at a customer’s office was promptly dubbed the first ‘Kelly Girl’.

The temporary workers, usually female, became known as "Kelly girls",[11] and the company name was changed to Kelly Girl Service, Inc. in 1957.[9] Eventually "Kelly girl" became a widely used term for a temporary worker, regardless of company affiliation or gender. In 1966 the company was renamed Kelly Services, Inc. to reflect an expanding range of services.[9]

The current Chairman of the Board is Terence E. Adderley,[12] and the CEO is Carl T. Camden.[13]


See also

References

  1. ^ "Executive Profile: Terence E. Adderley". Bloomberg.com. Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "2015 Annual Report" (PDF). Kelly Services. Retrieved July 25, 2016.
  3. ^ "Kelly Services". Fortune. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  4. ^ a b c d "United States Securities and Exchange Commission: Form 10-K". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  5. ^ Dutton, Jane E.; Heaphy, Emily (January 12, 2016). "We Learn More When We Learn Together". Harvard Business Review. Retrieved August 18, 2016.
  6. ^ Melvin, Tim (March 8, 2016). "3 Staffing Firms to Get Worked Up About". TheStreet.com. Retrieved August 18, 2016.
  7. ^ Murphy, Maxwell (December 21, 2015). "CFO Moves: Kelly Services, Pharm-Olam". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  8. ^ Wernau, Julie (November 25, 2014). "Kelly Services, DeVry partner to fill STEM gap". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  9. ^ a b c "William Russell Kelly Tribute". kellyservices.com. Retrieved 2008-10-03.
  10. ^ Eaton, Leslie (1998-01-08). "William Kelly, 92, Founder Of Temporary Jobs Company". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
  11. ^ a b Hatton, Erin (2011). The Temp Economy: From Kelly Girls to Permatemps in Postwar America. Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1439900826. Retrieved 2013-07-08.
  12. ^ "Kelly Services Executives". Hoover's. Retrieved 2008-03-17. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  13. ^ "Our annual ranking of America's largest corporations". CNN. Retrieved 2008-03-17. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
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