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2024
November: Canadian Lawyer's Readers' Choice Award in three categories: Legal Recruiters, Legal Support Staffing Recruiters, and Legal Process Outsourcing/Managed Document Review.
October: Forbes' World's Top Companies for Women 2024
October: Forbes World's Best Employers (fourth consecutive year)
September: Best Workplaces™ in Canada for Giving Back in 2024 by Great Place To Work®
July: Canada’s Best Workplaces™ in Professional Services by Great Place To Work®
June: Canadian HR Reporter Readers’ Choice Award in the “Recruitment Agency” category (9th consecutive year)
June: Canadian HR Reporter Readers’ Choice Award in the “Executive Recruitment Agency” category (8th consecutive year)
June: Canadian HR Reporter Readers’ Choice Award in the “Specialized Recruitment Agency (Marketing & Creative)” category (2nd consecutive year)
January: Fortune® Most Admired Companies™ (only company in its industry to receive this honour for 27 consecutive years)
2023
November: Canadian Lawyer's Readers' Choice Award for Legal Process Outsourcing
October: Forbes’ World’s Best Employers (third consecutive year)
September: TIME Magazine's World's Best Companies
August: Great Place to Work® and PEOPLE magazine's 2023 PEOPLE Companies that Care®
June: Canada’s Best Workplaces™ in Professional Services by Great Place To Work®
June: Canadian HR Reporter Readers’ Choice Award in the “Recruitment Agency” category (8th consecutive year)
June: Canadian HR Reporter Readers’ Choice Award in the “Executive Recruitment Agency” category for the (seventh consecutive year)
June: Canadian HR Reporter Readers’ Choice Award in the “Specialized Recruitment Agency (Marketing & Creative)” category.
June: Canadian HR Reporter Readers’ Choice Award in the “Recruitment Solutions/Software” category
May: Best Workplaces™ for Giving Back by Great Place To Work®
April: Best Workplaces™ in Canada by Great Place To Work®
March: Canada’s Best Workplaces™ for Women by Great Place To Work®
March: Fortune® America’s Most Innovative Companies inaugural list
March: Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies (sixth consectuive year)
February: Canada’s Best Workplaces™ with Most Trusted Executive Teams by Great Place To Work®
February: President and Chief Executive Officer M. Keith Waddell and Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer Katherine Spencer Lee named to Staffing Industry Analysts’ North America Staffing 100 list
February: Fortune® Most Admired Companies™ list (26th consecutive year and only company in its industry to be included)
January: Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (fifth consecutive year)
2022
November: Forbes’ list of World’s Top-Female Friendly Companies
November: Best Workplaces™ in Ontario by Great Place To Work®
November: Canadian Lawyer's Readers’ Choice Award in the Legal Recruiters, Legal Support Staffing Recruiters, and Legal Process Outsourcing categories
October: Canada’s Best Workplaces™ for Inclusion by Great Place To Work®
October: Canada’s Best Workplaces™ for Mental Wellness by Great Place To Work®
October: Forbes’ World’s Best Employers (second consecutive year)
June: Canadian HR Reporter Readers’ Choice Award in the “Recruitment Agency” category (seventh consecutive year)
June: Canadian HR Reporter Readers’ Choice Award in the “Executive Recruitment Agency” category for the (sixth consecutive year)
June: Canadian HR Reporter Readers’ Choice Award in the “Specialized Recruitment Agency (Contract Finance & Accounting)” category
June: Canadian HR Reporter Readers’ Choice Award in the “Compensation Survey/Salary Forecast” category
February: President and Chief Executive Officer M. Keith Waddell and President and Chief Executive Officer of Talent Solutions Paul F. Gentzkow named to Staffing Industry Analysts’ North America Staffing 100 list
February: Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies (fifth consecutive year)
February: Fortune® Most Admired Companies™ list (25th consecutive year and only company in its industry to be included)
January: Best Places to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality™ by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (sixth consecutive year)
January: Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (fourth consecutive year)
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Key milestones in Robert Half’s history
2022: Robert Half achieves record global revenues of $7.24 billion.
2019: Max Messmer, Robert Half Chairman and CEO for 33 years, retires from his position as CEO and continues as Executive Chairman. Messmer is succeeded as CEO by M. Keith Waddell.
2008: Robert Half is listed for the first time on the FTSE4Good Responsible Investment Index.
2008: Robert Half opens its first staffing location in the Middle East, in Dubai, UAE.
2007: Robert Half opens its first staffing location in Latin America, in São Paulo, Brazil.
2002: Protiviti launches, growing to become a global leader in internal audit, risk, business and technology consulting.
2000: Robert Half is the first staffing firm to be added to the S&P 500 Index.
1998: Robert Half opens its first office in the Asia-Pacific region, in Sydney, Australia.
1990: Robert Half is accepted into the New York Stock Exchange.
1989: Robert Half opens its first office in Continental Europe, in Brussels, Belgium.
1987: Robert Half International was formed.
1986: Max Messmer negotiates the purchase of the Robert Half business from founder Bob Half. Once finalized, this transaction sets the company on a new course, paving the way for the repurchase of the Robert Half franchises and the creation of a centralized corporate support infrastructure.
1977: Bob Half testifies before Congress on ways to reduce fraud in accounting and auditing practices.
1973: Robert Half opens its first international location in London, United Kingdom.
1973: Accountemps, the first of many professional staffing divisions, is launched, thus beginning Robert Half’s specialized approach to temporary staffing.
1963: Bob Half speaks out against discriminatory recruiting and staffing practices in a letter to the Association of Personnel Agencies of New York.
1948: Robert Half Personnel Agency founded by Bob and Maxine Half in New York City.
