The Eurociett Agency Work Business Indicator (AWBI) compiles the most up to date statistics on the agency work industry available from 10 European countries – Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

The AWBI plots the year on year evolution of turnover (defined as the revenues generated by private employment agencies in the temporary staffing segment) and hours worked (defined as the sum of all hours invoiced by all private employment agencies to all user companies, except where otherwise stated).

Data supplied by Eurociett national federations of is also plotted against the evolution of GDP and unemployment volumes in the European Union.

The indicator used for hours worked in Italy is number of remunerated working days, in Germany the indicator is total number of agency workers and the indicator for Switzerland is number of workable days).

In 2009, Europe accounted for 40% of the global agency work market by revenue, with 229,000 permanent staff working in 48,000 branches, and placing 3 million agency workers in full-time equivalent on a daily basis.