This Chapter has been extracted from the ONS Explanatory Notes and provides a more detailed explanation of possible activities that could fall within the SIC Codes related to the Chapter.
This division includes activities of listing employment vacancies and referring or placing applicants for employment, where the individuals referred or placed are not employees of the employment agencies, supplying workers to clients' businesses for limited periods of time to supplement the workforce of the client, and the activities of providing other human resources
This division includes:
- executive search and placement activities
- activities of theatrical casting agencies
This division excludes:
- activities of agents for individual artists, see 74.90
78.1 Activities of employment placement agencies
78.10 Activities of employment placement agencies
78.10/1 Motion picture, television and other theatrical casting
This subclass includes:
- activities of casting agencies and bureaus, such as theatrical casting agencies
This subclass excludes:
- activities of personal theatrical or artistic agents or agencies, see 74.90
78.10/9 Activities of employment placement agencies (other than motion picture, television and other theatrical casting) n.e.c.
This subclass includes listing employment vacancies and referring or placing applicants for employment,
where the individuals referred or placed are not employees of the employment agencies.
This subclass includes:
- personnel search, selection referral and placement activities including executive placement and search activities
- activities of on-line employment placement agencies
This subclass excludes:
- activities of personal theatrical or artistic agents or agencies, see 74.90
78.2 Temporary employment agency activities
78.20 Temporary employment agency activities
This class includes the activities of supplying workers to clients' businesses for limited periods of time to temporarily replace or supplement the workforce of the client, where the individuals provided are employees of the temporary help service unit. However, units classified here do not provide direct supervision of their employees at the clients' work sites.
78.3 Other human resources provision
78.30 Human resources provision
This class includes the activities of providing human resources for client businesses. The units classified here represent the employer of record for the employees on matters relating to payroll, taxes, and other fiscal and human resource issues, but they are not responsible for direction and supervision of employees.
The provision of human resources is typically done on a long-term or permanent basis and the units classified here provide a wide range of human resource and personnel management duties associated with this provision
This class excludes:
- provision of human resources functions together with supervision or running of the business, see the
class in the respective economic activity of that business
- provision of human resources to temporarily replace or supplement the workforce of a client, see 78.20
For all queries related to this Chapter or any other aspect of SIC Codes, please contact the Office of National Statistics on 01329 444970 or email classifications.helpdesk@ons.gov.uk.