Randstad N.V.

Randstad, based near Amsterdam, is one of the world's largest staffing and recruitment companies, placing temporary and permanent workers and providing workforce services to businesses across dozens of countries. Its fortunes track the labour market and the economy, hiring booming in upturns and slowing sharply in downturns. Randstad has a long record of paying a dividend, sometimes topped up with a special payment in strong years, but the payout is highly cyclical and recent weak hiring has pressured profits. A generous but variable yield from a leading staffing firm defines its profile, dependent on a labour-market recovery.