Back Bay Staffing Group

Back Bay Staffing Group is a Boston staffing agency that supplies temporary event staff and places candidates in office and professional roles. For the hospitality, convention and exhibition industries, it provides registration personnel, booth attendants, multilingual staff, ushers, guides, room monitors and promotional representatives for events of all sizes. On the corporate side, it places temporary, temp-to-hire and permanent candidates in legal, technology, human resources, administrative, financial and government positions.

Founder and CEO Joni Lee Rossi has led the agency for more than 25 years; it was formerly known as MacPherson Group. Its recruiters screen and interview candidates and run resume and background checks, aiming to save clients advertising costs and hiring time while matching people to each workplace’s culture. Clients include government agencies, conference coordinators, growing companies and Fortune 500 businesses, and the firm also helps job seekers looking for temporary or new permanent work.

What to Know

• The agency can place multiple temporary workers within 24 hours and staff events needing 50 or more temps.
• It assists clients with diversity hiring and supports minority- and women-owned businesses.
• Rossi was named one of Boston’s top ten recruiters by the Women’s Boston Business Journal in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
• The Boston Business Journal listed the firm among Boston’s largest temporary placement firms in 2009.