SPHERION PREMIERES SECOND SEASON OF ITS POPULAR WEB COMEDY, THE TEMP LIFE

Spherion Corporation, a recruiting, staffing and workforce solutions provider, today premiered the second season of its popular Web series, The Temp Life, a scripted, short-form comedy about a crew of hapless temporary workers forced to endure a series of insufferable temp jobs under their agency’s clueless, scheming CEO.  The first episode of the new season premieres today at http://thetemplife.tv and will be syndicated across multiple video portals including YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Funny or Die, Yahoo, Break, Crackle and Blip.

In its first season The Temp Life, created and produced for Spherion by CJP Communications’ digital practice, garnered over 100,000 views and was listed among Brandweek magazine’s top ten Bright Ideas of 2008.  For its sophomore season, The Temp Life has evolved beyond its initial format of singular, mock PSA-style “lessons” into a comedic serial with greater emphasis placed on story,  character development and production value. 

Season two finds the character of self-proclaimed “ambassador of fun,” Nick “Trouble” Chiapetta as the new head of bankrupt Commodity Staffing after “accidentally” selling his startup social network for shoelace-makers to the temp agency’s CEO in a “multi-hundred dollar transaction.”  To keep his new company afloat, Nick contracts Commodity’s four remaining employees to a host of questionable “clients.”            

“We are very excited for this new season of The Temp Life,” said Kip Havel, Director of Communications, Spherion.  “The Temp Life has allowed Spherion to grow its pool of candidates at every career stage by engaging them first with fun, entertaining content that essentially pokes fun at our own industry.  The situations these characters endure are scripted for laughs but our message is, we know there are bad temp jobs out there, but at Spherion we aim to offer better career experiences.”

New episodes of The Temp Life will post regularly through the end of the year with a third season planned for mid-2009.