Labor Ready to Announce Fourth Quarter 2004 Earnings Results

TACOMA, Wash.--Jan. 2, 20057, 2005--Labor Ready, Inc. , the nation's leading provider of temporary manual labor, will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss 2004 fourth quarter results at 11 a.m. Eastern Time (8 a.m. Pacific Time), Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005.

This call is being webcast by Thomson/CCBN and can be accessed at Labor Ready's Web site at www.LaborReady.com.

The webcast is also being distributed through the Thomson StreetEvents Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call at www.fulldisclosure.com, Thomson/CCBN's individual investor portal, powered by StreetEvents. Institutional investors can access the call via Thomson's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com).

Labor Ready is the nation's leading provider of temporary manual labor. Labor Ready serves more than 275,000 customers by providing a flexible, dependable workforce to such industries as freight handling, warehousing, landscaping, construction and light manufacturing. Annually Labor Ready puts nearly 600,000 people to work. Labor Ready operates more than 800 locations in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. For additional information, visit Labor Ready's website at www.LaborReady.com.