Amplio Recruiting Becomes the First B Corporation® Certified Staffing Company

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Amplio Recruiting, an Atlanta, Georgia-based staffing agency

Amplio Recruiting, a firm specializing in placing refugee workers, has expanded to Dallas and Houston, Tx, Raleigh, NC from its home base in Atlanta, GA. The company name, which can mean ample in Spanish, aims to suggest plenty of jobs and job candidates from the refugee community.

Amplio has joined the B Corp(TM) commitment to achieving success at the triple bottom line. Certified B Corporations are leaders of a global movement of people using business as a force for good.

They meet the highest standards of overall social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability and aspire to use the power of business to solve social and environmental problems.

Each of the Certified B Corporations is required to establish socially-responsible commitments with a focus on leveraging its business success for good. To maintain its B Corp(TM) status, a business must uphold its commitments and consider the impact of its work on the lives of employees, customers, the community, and the environment.

“One of our commitments is to have 90% of individuals on our payroll represent the refugee community,” explains Amplio Recruiting. “We firmly believe thousands of underemployed or unemployed refugees are looking for dignifying work, and our team is excited about this challenge!”

The external accountability beyond the bottom line is what initially drove Amplio Recruiting to pursue this certification back in March of 2017. However, as Amplio pioneers this new frontier as the first socially responsible staffing company, it has plans to grow.

“By becoming a B Corp, we hope to help raise the standard across the staffing industry for how temporary workers and clients are treated. There are millions of job openings in the US and it’s the best time in the history of the world to be in staffing. If we as an industry raise our standards for how we care for employees and customers, everyone wins.”

The downward trend of refugee acceptance in the U.S. implies that immigrants don’t benefit the country – a claim that couldn’t be further from the truth. The Brookings Institute highlights some ways immigrants contribute to this country, two of which are becoming productive members of a community, often in ways complementary to the native workforce, and successfully engaging in entrepreneurship.

A 2017 study from the bipartisan immigration research and advocacy organization New American Economy revealed that refugee entrepreneurship exceeds other groups, including immigrants and the native-born population. In 2015, 13 percent of refugees were entrepreneurs; that’s 1.5 percent higher than non-refugee immigrants and four percent higher than the U.S.-born population.

Amplio Recruiting: Vision, History, and Impact

“It has nothing to do with us,” Amplio founder and CEO Chris Chancey said. “It’s the fact that these individuals are highly motivated and want to be able to contribute to the local economy and play a pivotal role in the community and live out that American Dream.”

“I enjoy seeing our community thrive through what we’re doing,” Chris continued, “I enjoy seeing our teamwork together towards this bigger vision. Something bigger than ourselves.”

Amplio may be a happily-ever-after story, but it was certainly no overnight success. Thanks to the drive and passion of Chris and his team, dozens of businesses are experiencing the benefits of hiring from a previously untapped labor pool—the hard-working and dependable refugee workforce.

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