Employment Service Connection

What Employment Service Connection does

Employment Service Connection, Inc., doing business as ESC Staffing, is a private, for-profit temp-hire staffing agency headquartered in Kenosha, Wisconsin, with additional offices in Milwaukee and Racine. Founded in 2011 and operating with 251–500 employees, the company serves small-to-large local businesses across southeastern Wisconsin in manufacturing, warehousing, food service, and administrative sectors. Its core offering is temporary and permanent employee placement, supplemented by a Payrolling Plus module that outsources full HR and payroll functions to the client. The firm acts as the employer of record for placed workers, handling payroll checks, government documentation, workers' compensation insurance, benefits administration, and pre-employment screening (drug testing, background checks, skills/computer testing).

The business model is a classic staffing markup: ESC recruits candidates from an internal pool, deploys them to client worksites, bills the client a single weekly invoice covering wages plus an administrative markup, and assumes employer-of-record liabilities. The go-to-market is direct and relationship-driven — clients initiate via a single telephone call to one of three Wisconsin offices, and the agency maintains a job-listings portal on escstaff.com as the primary digital surface. Pricing is custom, quote-based, and negotiated per client with no publicly disclosed rate card.

There is no proprietary technology platform underpinning the service; the candidate-sourcing and matching process relies on local market knowledge and a 'vast pool of qualified candidates' rather than algorithmic matching or AI tooling. The company's stated competitive advantages are domain specialization in southeastern Wisconsin's labor market and the comprehensiveness of its HR administration, neither of which is technology-mediated. The firm holds no disclosed patents, trademarks, certifications, or partnerships, has no parent company, has raised no outside funding, and operates exclusively within a single domestic region.

Name

Employment Service Connection

Legal name

Employment Service Connection, Inc.

Website

https://escstaff.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

ESC Staffing is a private southeastern Wisconsin temp-hire and permanent placement agency operating from offices in Kenosha, Milwaukee, and Racine, serving small-to-large local businesses in manufacturing, warehousing, food service, and administrative sectors through a direct, phone-based relationship model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Temporary Staffing Services

NAICS

Temporary Help Services (561320), Professional Employer Organizations (561330), Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Payroll Services (541214)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361), Services-Help Supply Services (7363)

akta.pro primary industry

Light Industrial & Warehouse Temp Staffing (BPACACAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Clerical & Customer Support Temp Staffing (BPACACAC), Professional Employer Organization (PEO) / Co-Employment Services (BPACAHAB), High-Volume / High-Turnover Temp Staffing (BPACACAF)

Keywords

• Temporary staffing services
• Temp-to-hire placement
• Payroll administration services
• Workforce solutions staffing
• Permanent employee placement

Headquarters

HQ city

Kenosha

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Staffing and Employment Services: ESC generates revenue by providing temporary-hire staffing services to client companies. The company handles all payroll administration, including checks, government documentation, and payments, billing clients via a single weekly invoice. Revenue is derived from the markup on employee wages and associated administrative services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Employment Service Connection (ESC Staffing) is a temp-hire staffing agency that recruits, screens, and places temporary, long-term, and permanent employees with client businesses, while handling all payroll administration, government documentation, compliance, and workers' compensation for those placements. Clients submit staffing needs via a single phone call and receive a single weekly invoice covering employee wages and ESC's fees.

Product overview

Employment Service Connection Inc. (ESC Staffing) operates as a temp-hire staffing agency offering two integrated services: core temporary and permanent employee placement across manufacturing, warehousing, food service, and administrative sectors, and an add-on Payrolling Plus module that outsources complete HR and payroll functions to clients. The company handles recruitment, pre-employment screening, compliance documentation, workers' compensation insurance, and weekly invoicing through a simplified customer engagement model.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Temp-Hire Staffing Services Temporary, long-term, and permanent employee placement services that connect ESC's pool of qualified candidates with client organizations across manufacturing, production, warehousing, food service, and administrative roles; engagements range from a single one-day placement to 100+ worker deployments.
• Payrolling Plus Program that shifts all Human Resource functions of the client company to ESC, including payroll processing and related HR administration; available for both ESC-placed employees and the client's existing non-ESC employees.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Kelly Services: Established staffing firm providing temporary, temp-to-hire, and permanent placement with strong industrial and administrative verticals — comparable business model and customer segments to ESC.
• PeopleReady: TrueBlue subsidiary specializing in light industrial and skilled trades temporary staffing with a branch-based local service model — closely matches ESC's industrial-heavy mix.
• Randstad: Global staffing and HR services firm operating in industrial, administrative, and professional placement — overlapping directly with ESC's temp-hire offerings in manufacturing, warehousing, and clerical staffing.
• Express Employment Professionals: Private, franchised staffing firm specializing in temporary, temp-to-hire, and permanent placement across industrial, office, and skilled trades — very close analog to ESC's generalist temp-hire positioning.
• Staffmark Group: Mid-sized US staffing provider focused on light industrial, administrative, and professional placements with regional branch operations — directly comparable operating model to ESC.
• Adecco Group: Global staffing leader providing temporary staffing, permanent placement, and workforce solutions across industrial, clerical, and professional sectors — directly comparable to ESC's temp-hire staffing model across the same core verticals.
• Aerotek: Aerotek specializes in industrial, manufacturing, and skilled trades staffing with local offices serving mid-sized and enterprise manufacturers — directly overlapping ESC's core manufacturing/warehousing customer base.
• ManpowerGroup: One of the world's largest staffing companies offering temporary, permanent, and recruitment process outsourcing across industrial, office, and skilled trades — same core temp-hire model and sector mix as ESC.

Broad incumbents

• Robert Half International: Large, established staffing and consulting firm spanning administrative, finance, legal, and technology placements with PEO-adjacent services — broader portfolio than ESC but overlapping in administrative temp staffing and HR outsourcing.

Regional players

• Cornerstone Staffing Solutions: Regional staffing firm operating across multiple US markets providing temp, temp-to-hire, and direct-hire in industrial, clerical, and professional — similar generalist model and branch footprint to ESC, though in different geographies.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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