Weathering the merger storm: Local employment agencies hope turbulence only temporary

To meet the evolving employment needs of this nation’s businesses, many players in the fast-growing temporary-staffing industry are rearranging their position via mergers, buyouts, expansions and newly formed companies.
As a result, this service-dominated, $55 billion-a-year industry is as boisterous as a game of musical chairs where the object is to maneuver for a place to settle when the music finally stops.
Here in Northern Colorado, the shuffle started a little more than two years ago, and it appears that the music is still playing.
SOS Staffing Services was one of the first new players to enter this area about…