An employment service is an organization which matches employers to employees. In industrialized nations, there are several personal companies which act as employment service and an openly funded work firm.

Public employment service

Among the earliest recommendations to a public work agency was in 1650, when Henry Robinson proposed an "Office of Addresses and Encounters" that would link companies to employees. [1] The British Parliament declined the proposal, but he himself opened such a service, which was short-term. [2]

The idea to produce public work companies as a method to eliminate joblessness was eventually adopted in developed countries by the start of the twentieth century.