DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

Description of Business [Abstract]

DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

Hudson Global, Inc. and its subsidiaries (the "Company") are comprised of the operations, assets and liabilities of the three Hudson regional businesses of Hudson Americas, Hudson Asia Pacific, and Hudson Europe ("Hudson regional businesses" or "Hudson"). The Company provides specialized professional-level recruitment and related talent solutions worldwide. The Company’s core service offerings included Permanent Recruitment, Contracting, Recruitment Process Outsourcing ("RPO") and Talent Management Solutions. On March 31, 2018 the Company completed the sale of its Recruitment and Talent Management ("RTM") businesses in three separate transactions and retained its RPO business (the "Sales Transaction"). The results of the RTM businesses are reported as discontinued operations for all periods presented in the statements of operations and consolidated balance sheet. For more information, see Note 4.

As of December 31, 2019, the Company operated directly in ten countries with three reportable geographic business segments: Americas, Asia Pacific, and Europe.

The Company’s core service offering following the sale transaction is RPO. The Company delivers RPO permanent recruitment and contracting outsourced recruitment solutions tailored to the individual needs of primarily mid-to-large-cap multinational companies. The Company's RPO delivery teams utilize state-of-the-art recruitment process methodologies and project management expertise in their flexible, turnkey solutions to meet clients' ongoing business needs. The Company's RPO services include complete recruitment outsourcing, project-based outsourcing, contingent workforce solutions, and recruitment consulting.

Corporate expenses are reported separately from the reportable segments and pertain to certain functions, such as executive management, corporate governance, human resources, accounting, tax, marketing, information technology, and treasury. A portion of these expenses are attributed to the reportable segments for providing the above services to them and have been allocated to the segments as management service expenses and are included in the segments’ non-operating other income (expense).