As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 11, 1995
                                                  Registration No. 33-_____

                    Securities and Exchange Commission
                          Washington, D.C. 20549
                                     
                                 FORM S-8

                          REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                   UNDER
                        THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                            OLSTEN CORPORATION
            (Exact name of issuer as specified in its charter)

           Delaware                                    13-2610512
        (State of other                             (I.R.S. Employer
        jurisdiction of                          Identification Number)
         incorporation
       or organization)


                           175 Broad Hollow Road
                         Melville, New York  11747
                              (516) 832-8200
            (Address, including zip code, and telephone number,
                    including area code of registrant's
                       principal executive officers)

                             IMI SYSTEMS, INC.
                        INCENTIVE STOCK OPTION PLAN
                                    and
                       DIRECTORS' STOCK OPTION PLANS
                         (Full title of the plans)

                        William P. Costantini, Esq.
                 Senior Vice President and General Counsel
                            Olsten Corporation
             175 Broad Hollow Road, Melville, New York  11747
                  (Name and address of agent for service)

                              (516) 844-7250
       (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
                                     
                                     
                                 Copy to:
                                     
                        Marjorie Sybul Adams, Esq.
                           114 West 47th Street
                         New York, New York  10036
                              (212) 626-0861
Exhibit Index is on page 9                                                

                             Page 1 of 9 Pages

<PAGE>
<TABLE>
                      CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

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Title of Each          Proposed          Proposed        Amount of     Amount of
Class of Securities    Maximum           Maximum         Aggregate     Registra-
to be Registered       Amount to be      Offering Price  Offering      tion Fee
                       Registered        Per Unit        Price
- -------------------  --------------     --------------  ------------  ----------
<S>                    <C>               <C>             <C>           <C>

Class B Common Stock,  17,995            --              $92,550<FN2>  $100.00
par value $.10         Shares <FN1>

Common Stock,          17,995 Shares     N.A.            N.A.          N.A.
par value $.10

<FN>
<FN1>  The amount being registered is the aggregate amount of shares available
for issuance under the Plans. If there is any change in the number of shares by
reason of a stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization, reorganization or
similar transaction, appropriate adjustments will be made in the number of
shares subject to outstanding options to maintain the option holders'
proportionate interests pursuant to the provisions of the aforementioned Plans.
</FN>
<FN>
<FN2>  Pursuant to Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act of 1933, the aggregate
offering price and the amount of the fee are computed upon the basis of the
maximum aggregate offering price at which the shares subject to outstanding
options may be purchased by the optionees.
</FN>
</TABLE>
<PAGE>
<PAGE>

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.   Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

          Olsten Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"or "Olsten"),
hereby incorporates by reference in this Registration Statement the following
documents previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission"):

          (a)  The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
ended January 1, 1995, as amended, filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act") (File No.
0-3532);

          (b)  All other reports filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a)
or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the
Annual Report on Form 10-K referred to in (a) above; and

          (c)  The description of the Company's Class B Stock and Common Stock
contained in the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A dated December 5,
1994 (which incorporates by reference the section entitled "Description of
Capital Stock" contained in the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-3
filed on July 6, 1994 (File No. 33-54463)).

          In addition, all documents subsequently filed by the Company with the
Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act,
prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all
securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities
then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this
Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such
documents.

Item 4.   Description of Securities.

          Not applicable.

Item 5.   Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

          Not applicable.

Item 6.   Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

          Article Ninth of the Registrant's Restated Certificate of
Incorporation provides for indemnification of Directors of the Registrant as
follows:

          NINTH:  No director of the Corporation shall be liable to the
     Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of
     fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach of
     the director's duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii)
     for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional
     misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the
     Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv) for any transaction from which
     the director derived an improper personal benefit. This Article NINTH shall
     not eliminate or limit the liability of a director for any act or omission
     occurring prior to the effective date of its adoption. If the Delaware
     General Corporation Law is amended after approval by the stockholders of
     this article to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting
     the personal liability of directors, then the liability of a director of
     the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent
     permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as so amended.

          Any repeal or modification of the foregoing paragraph by the
     stockholders of the Corporation shall not adversely affect any right or
     protection of a director of the corporation existing at the time of such
     repeal or modification.

     As authorized by Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law,
Article V of the Registrant's By-Laws provides as follows:

          Section 1.  Right to Indemnification.   Each person who was or is made
     a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is otherwise involved in
     any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or
     investigative (hereinafter a "proceeding"), by reason of the fact that he
     or she is or was a director or officer of the Corporation or is or was
     serving at the request of the Corporation as a director or officer of
     another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other
     enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan
     (hereinafter an "indemnitee"), whether the basis of such proceeding is
     alleged action in an official capacity as a director or officer or in any
     other capacity while serving as a director or officer shall be indemnified
     and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent authorized by
     the Delaware General Corporation Law, as the same exists or may hereafter
     be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that
     such amendment permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification
     rights than permitted prior thereto), against all expense, liability and
     loss (including attorneys' fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or
     penalties and amounts paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered
     by such indemnitee in connection therewith and such indemnification shall
     continue as to an indemnitee who has ceased to be a director or officer and
     shall inure to the benefit of the indemnitee's heirs, executors and
     administrators; provided, however, that the Corporation shall indemnify any
     such indemnitee in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated
     by such indemnitee only if such proceeding was authorized by the Board.

          Section 2.  Right to Advancement of Expenses.  This right to
     indemnification conferred to in Section 1 of this Article V shall include
     the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses incurred in defending
     any proceeding for which such right to indemnification is applicable in
     advance of its final disposition (hereinafter an "advancement of
     expenses"); provided, however, that, if the Delaware General Corporation
     Law requires, an advancement of expenses incurred by an indemnitee in his
     or her capacity as a director or officer (and not in any other capacity in
     which service was or is rendered by such indemnitee, including, without
     limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) shall be made only upon
     delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking, by or on behalf of such
     indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be
     determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right
     to appeal that such indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified for such
     expenses under this Article V or otherwise.

          Section 3.  Non-Exclusivity of Rights.  The rights to indemnification
     and to the advancement of expenses conferred in this Article V shall not
     be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter
     acquire under any statute, the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, By-
     Law, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or
     otherwise.

          Section 4.  Insurance.  The Corporation may maintain insurance, at its
     expense, to protect itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of
     the Corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust
     or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss, whether or not
     the Corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such
     expense, liability or loss under the Delaware General Corporation Law.

       Section 5. Indemnification of Employees and Agents of the Corporation. 
     The Corporation may, to the extent authorized from time to time by the
     Board, grant rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses
     to any employee or agent of the Corporation or, if serving at the request
     of the Corporation, as an employee or agent of another corporation or of
     a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service
     with respect to an employee benefit plan, to the fullest extent of the
     provisions of this Article V with respect to the indemnification and
     advancement of expenses of directors and officers of the Corporation.

     In addition, the Company maintains directors' and officers' liability
insurance covering certain liabilities that may be incurred by the directors and
officers of the Company in connection with the performance of their duties.

Item 7.   Exemption from Registration Claimed.

          Not applicable.

Item 8.   Exhibits.

          The exhibits set forth on the Exhibit Index to this Registration
Statement are incorporated herein by reference.

Item 9.   Undertakings.

          (a)  The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

               (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are
                    being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration
                    Statement to include any material information with respect
                    to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in
                    this Registration Statement or any material change to such
                    information in this Registration Statement.

               (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under
                    the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective
                    amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration
                    statement relating to the securities offered therein, and
                    the offering of such securities at that time shall be
                    deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

               (3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
                    amendment any of the securities being registered which
                    remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

          (b)  The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes
of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of
the Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

          (c)  Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise,
the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed
in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will
be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
<PAGE>
<PAGE>                            SIGNATURES

          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in Melville, State of New York, on August 11, 1995.

                              OLSTEN CORPORATION


                              By /s/ Frank N. Liguori
                              Frank N. Liguori,
                              Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

                              POWER OF ATTORNEY

     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears
below constitutes and appoints Frank N. Liguori, William P. Costantini and
Laurin L. Laderoute, Jr. and each and any one of them, his true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitu-
tion, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to
sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Regis-
tration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other
documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power
and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and
purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his substi-
tute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.


<TABLE>

<CAPTION>

Name                             Title                    Date
- -------                        ---------                 -------
<S>                               <C>                      <C>
/s/ Frank N. Liguori      Chairman and Chief         August 11, 1995
                           Executive Officer
                             and Director 

/s/ Anthony J. Puglisi  Senior Vice President-       August 11, 1995
                                Finance
                       (Principal Financial and
                          Accounting Officer)

/s/ Stuart Olsten              Director              August 11, 1995

/s/ Andrew N. Heine            Director              August 11, 1995

___________________            Director              August 11, 1995
(Stuart R. Levine)

/s/ John M. May                Director              August 11, 1995

/s/ Miriam Olsten              Director              August 11, 1995

/s/ Richard A. Sharoff         Director              August 11, 1995

/s/ Raymond S. Troubh          Director              August 11, 1995

/s/ Josh S. Weston             Director              August 11, 1995

</TABLE>

<PAGE>

<TABLE>
                             EXHIBIT INDEX 

<CAPTION>
Exhibit
Number                     Exhibit                         Page
- -------                    -------                         ----
<S>                          <C>                            <C>
4.1       Restated Certificate of Incorporation
          of Registrant, as amended.

4.2       By-Laws of Registrant (incorporated herein
          by reference to Exhibit 3(b) to Registrant's
          Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal 
          year ended January 2, 1994).

4.3       IMI Incentive Stock Option Plan

4.4       Form of Directors' Stock Option Plan

5         Opinion of Gordon Altman Butowsky Weitzen 
          Shalov & Wein.

24.1      Consent of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P.

24.2      Consent of Gordon Altman Butowsky Weitzen
          Shalov & Wein (included in Exhibit 5).

25        Powers of Attorney (contained on the 
          signature pages of this Registration Statement).
</TABLE>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 11, 1995
                                                  Registration No. 33-_____

                    Securities and Exchange Commission
                          Washington, D.C. 20549
                                     
                                 FORM S-8

                          REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                   UNDER
                        THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                            OLSTEN CORPORATION
            (Exact name of issuer as specified in its charter)

           Delaware                                    13-2610512
        (State of other                             (I.R.S. Employer
        jurisdiction of                          Identification Number)
         incorporation
       or organization)

                           175 Broad Hollow Road
                         Melville, New York  11747
                              (516) 832-8200
            (Address, including zip code, and telephone number,
                    including area code of registrant's
                       principal executive officers)

                             IMI SYSTEMS, INC.
                        INCENTIVE STOCK OPTION PLAN
                                    and
                       DIRECTORS' STOCK OPTION PLANS
                         (Full title of the plans)

                        William P. Costantini, Esq.
                 Senior Vice President and General Counsel
                            Olsten Corporation
             175 Broad Hollow Road, Melville, New York  11747
                  (Name and address of agent for service)

                              (516) 844-7250
       (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
                                     
                                     
                                 Copy to:
                                     
                        Marjorie Sybul Adams, Esq.
                           114 West 47th Street
                         New York, New York  10036
                              (212) 626-0861
Exhibit Index is on page 9                                                

                             Page 1 of 9 Pages
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of Each          Proposed          Proposed        Amount of     Amount of
Class of Securities    Maximum           Maximum         Aggregate     Registra-
to be Registered       Amount to be      Offering Price  Offering      tion Fee
                       Registered        Per Unit        Price
- -------------------  --------------     --------------  ------------  ----------
Class B Common Stock,  17,995            --              $92,550
$100.00
par value $.10         Shares
Common Stock,          17,995 Shares     N.A.            N.A.          N.A.
par value $.10
The amount being registered is the aggregate amount of shares available
for issuance under the Plans. If there is any change in the number of shares by
reason of a stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization, reorganization or
similar transaction, appropriate adjustments will be made in the number of
shares subject to outstanding options to maintain the option holders'
proportionate interests pursuant to the provisions of the aforementioned Plans.
Pursuant to Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act of 1933, the aggregate
offering price and the amount of the fee are computed upon the basis of the
maximum aggregate offering price at which the shares subject to outstanding
options may be purchased by the optionees.
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.   Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

          Olsten Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"or "Olsten"),
hereby incorporates by reference in this Registration Statement the following
documents previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission"):

          (a)  The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
ended January 1, 1995, as amended, filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act") (File No.
0-3532);

          (b)  All other reports filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a)
or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the
Annual Report on Form 10-K referred to in (a) above; and

          (c)  The description of the Company's Class B Stock and Common Stock
contained in the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A dated December 5,
1994 (which incorporates by reference the section entitled "Description of
Capital Stock" contained in the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-3
filed on July 6, 1994 (File No. 33-54463)).

          In addition, all documents subsequently filed by the Company with the
Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act,
prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all
securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities
then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this
Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such
documents.

Item 4.   Description of Securities.

          Not applicable.

Item 5.   Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

          Not applicable.

Item 6.   Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

          Article Ninth of the Registrant's Restated Certificate of
Incorporation provides for indemnification of Directors of the Registrant as
follows:

          NINTH:  No director of the Corporation shall be liable to the
     Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of
     fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach of
     the director's duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii)
     for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional
     misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the
     Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv) for any transaction from which
     the director derived an improper personal benefit. This Article NINTH shall
     not eliminate or limit the liability of a director for any act or omission
     occurring prior to the effective date of its adoption. If the Delaware
     General Corporation Law is amended after approval by the stockholders of
     this article to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting
     the personal liability of directors, then the liability of a director of
     the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent
     permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as so amended.

          Any repeal or modification of the foregoing paragraph by the
     stockholders of the Corporation shall not adversely affect any right or
     protection of a director of the corporation existing at the time of such
     repeal or modification.

     As authorized by Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law,
Article V of the Registrant's By-Laws provides as follows:

          Section 1.  Right to Indemnification.   Each person who was or is made
     a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is otherwise involved in
     any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or
     investigative (hereinafter a "proceeding"), by reason of the fact that he
     or she is or was a director or officer of the Corporation or is or was
     serving at the request of the Corporation as a director or officer of
     another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other
     enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan
     (hereinafter an "indemnitee"), whether the basis of such proceeding is
     alleged action in an official capacity as a director or officer or in any
     other capacity while serving as a director or officer shall be indemnified
     and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent authorized by
     the Delaware General Corporation Law, as the same exists or may hereafter
     be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that
     such amendment permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification
     rights than permitted prior thereto), against all expense, liability and
     loss (including attorneys' fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or
     penalties and amounts paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered
     by such indemnitee in connection therewith and such indemnification shall
     continue as to an indemnitee who has ceased to be a director or officer and
     shall inure to the benefit of the indemnitee's heirs, executors and
     administrators; provided, however, that the Corporation shall indemnify any
     such indemnitee in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated
     by such indemnitee only if such proceeding was authorized by the Board.

          Section 2.  Right to Advancement of Expenses.  This right to
     indemnification conferred to in Section 1 of this Article V shall include
     the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses incurred in defending
     any proceeding for which such right to indemnification is applicable in
     advance of its final disposition (hereinafter an "advancement of
     expenses"); provided, however, that, if the Delaware General Corporation
     Law requires, an advancement of expenses incurred by an indemnitee in his
     or her capacity as a director or officer (and not in any other capacity in
     which service was or is rendered by such indemnitee, including, without
     limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) shall be made only upon
     delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking, by or on behalf of such
     indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be
     determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right
     to appeal that such indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified for such
     expenses under this Article V or otherwise.

          Section 3.  Non-Exclusivity of Rights.  The rights to indemnification
     and to the advancement of expenses conferred in this Article V shall not
     be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter
     acquire under any statute, the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, By-
     Law, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or
     otherwise.

          Section 4.  Insurance.  The Corporation may maintain insurance, at its
     expense, to protect itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of
     the Corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust
     or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss, whether or not
     the Corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such
     expense, liability or loss under the Delaware General Corporation Law.

       Section 5. Indemnification of Employees and Agents of the Corporation. 
     The Corporation may, to the extent authorized from time to time by the
     Board, grant rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses
     to any employee or agent of the Corporation or, if serving at the request
     of the Corporation, as an employee or agent of another corporation or of
     a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service
     with respect to an employee benefit plan, to the fullest extent of the
     provisions of this Article V with respect to the indemnification and
     advancement of expenses of directors and officers of the Corporation.

     In addition, the Company maintains directors' and officers' liability
insurance covering certain liabilities that may be incurred by the directors and
officers of the Company in connection with the performance of their duties.

Item 7.   Exemption from Registration Claimed.

          Not applicable.

Item 8.   Exhibits.

          The exhibits set forth on the Exhibit Index to this Registration
Statement are incorporated herein by reference.

Item 9.   Undertakings.

          (a)  The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

               (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are
                    being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration
                    Statement to include any material information with respect
                    to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in
                    this Registration Statement or any material change to such
                    information in this Registration Statement.

               (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under
                    the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective
                    amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration
                    statement relating to the securities offered therein, and
                    the offering of such securities at that time shall be
                    deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

               (3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
                    amendment any of the securities being registered which
                    remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

          (b)  The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes
of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of
the Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

          (c)  Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise,
the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed
in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will
be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
SIGNATURES

          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in Melville, State of New York, on August 11, 1995.

                              OLSTEN CORPORATION

                              By /s/ Frank N. Liguori
                              Frank N. Liguori,
                              Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

                              POWER OF ATTORNEY

     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears
below constitutes and appoints Frank N. Liguori, William P. Costantini and
Laurin L. Laderoute, Jr. and each and any one of them, his true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitu-
tion, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to
sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Regis-
tration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other
documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power
and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and
purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his substi-
tute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.
Name                             Title                    Date
- -------                        ---------                 -------
/s/ Frank N. Liguori      Chairman and Chief         August 11, 1995
                           Executive Officer
                             and Director 

/s/ Anthony J. Puglisi  Senior Vice President-       August 11, 1995
                                Finance
                       (Principal Financial and
                          Accounting Officer)

/s/ Stuart Olsten              Director              August 11, 1995

/s/ Andrew N. Heine            Director              August 11, 1995

___________________            Director              August 11, 1995
(Stuart R. Levine)

/s/ John M. May                Director              August 11, 1995

/s/ Miriam Olsten              Director              August 11, 1995

/s/ Richard A. Sharoff         Director              August 11, 1995

/s/ Raymond S. Troubh          Director              August 11, 1995

/s/ Josh S. Weston             Director              August 11, 1995
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
Number                     Exhibit                         Page
- -------                    -------                         ----
4.1       Restated Certificate of Incorporation
          of Registrant, as amended.

4.2       By-Laws of Registrant (incorporated herein
          by reference to Exhibit 3(b) to Registrant's
          Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal 
          year ended January 2, 1994).

4.3       IMI Incentive Stock Option Plan

4.4       Form of Directors' Stock Option Plan

5         Opinion of Gordon Altman Butowsky Weitzen 
          Shalov & Wein.

24.1      Consent of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P.

24.2      Consent of Gordon Altman Butowsky Weitzen
          Shalov & Wein (included in Exhibit 5).

25        Powers of Attorney (contained on the 
          signature pages of this Registration Statement).