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                                                                     Exhibit 4.6




        ARTICLES FOURTH, FIFTH, SEVENTH, EIGHTH AND TENTH OF THE RESTATED
              CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF SPHERION CORPORATION


                  FOURTH: The aggregate number of shares of all classes of stock
         that the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 202,500,000
         divided into two classes as follows:

                    (i) 200,000,000 shares of a class designated Common Stock,
         with a par value of $0.01 per share; and

                    (ii) 2,500,000 shares of a class designated Preferred Stock,
         with a par value of $.01 per share.

                  The voting powers, designations, preferences, qualifications,
         limitations, restrictions and special or relative rights in respect of
         each class of stock are or shall be fixed as follows:

                  (1) PREFERRED STOCK. The Board of Directors is expressly
         authorized to issue the Preferred Stock from time to time, in one or
         more series, provided that the aggregate number of shares issued and
         outstanding at any time of all such series shall not exceed 2,500,000.
         The Board of Directors is further authorized to fix or alter by
         resolution or resolutions, in respect of each such series, the
         following terms and provisions of any authorized and unissued shares of
         such stock:

                  (a) The distinctive serial designation;

                  (b) The number of shares of the series, which number may at
         any time or from time to time be increased or decreased (but not below
         the number of shares of such series then outstanding) by the Board of
         Directors;

                  (c) The voting powers and, if voting powers are granted, the
         extent of such voting powers including the right, if any, to elect a
         director or directors;

                  (d) The election, term of office, filling of vacancies and
         other terms of the directorships of directors elected by the holders of
         any one or more classes or series of such stock;

                  (e) The dividend rights, including the dividend rate and the
         dates on which any dividends shall be payable;








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                  (f) The date from which dividends on shares issued prior to
         the date for payment of the first dividend thereon shall be cumulative,
         if any;

                  (g) The redemption price, terms of redemption, and the amount
         of and provisions regarding any sinking fund for the purchase or
         redemption thereof;

                  (h) The liquidation preference and the amounts payable on
         dissolution or liquidation;

                  (i) The terms and conditions, if any, under which shares of
         the series may be converted; and

                  (j) Any other terms or provisions that the Board of Directors
         is by law authorized to fix or alter.

                  (2) COMMON STOCK. The holders of shares of Common Stock shall
         be entitled (i) to vote on all matters at all meetings of the
         shareholders of the Corporation on the basis of one vote for each share
         of Common Stock held of record; (ii) subject to any preferential
         dividend rights applicable to the Preferred Stock, to receive such
         dividends as may be declared by the Board of Directors; and (iii) in
         the event of the voluntary, or involuntary, liquidation or winding up
         of the Corporation, after distribution in full of any preferential
         amounts to be distributed to holders of shares of Preferred Stock, to
         receive all of the remaining assets of the Corporation available for
         distribution to its shareholders, ratably in proportion to the
         aggregate number of their shares of Common Stock and Preferred Stock
         (if the holders of such Preferred Stock are entitled to share in such
         distribution).

                  (3) PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO COMMON AND PREFERRED STOCK. No
         holder of shares of any class of stock of the Corporation shall be
         entitled, as a matter of right, to purchase or subscribe for any shares
         of any class of stock of the Corporation, whether now or hereafter
         authorized. The Board of Directors shall have authority to fix the
         issue price of any and all shares of any class of stock of the
         Corporation.

                  FIFTH: (A) NUMBER OF DIRECTORS. The number of directors to
         constitute the Board of Directors shall be such number as fixed by a
         resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority vote of the
         whole Board of Directors, but to be nine until otherwise determined.



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                  (B) CLASSIFICATION OF DIRECTORS. Pursuant to an action taken
         by the shareholders of the Corporation either at a special meeting of
         the shareholders of the Corporation in 1993 or pursuant to a consent in
         lieu thereof of the shareholders of the Corporation in accordance with
         Section 228 of the GCL, the directors of the Corporation shall be
         divided into three classes: Class I, Class II and Class III. Membership
         in such classes shall be as nearly equal as possible and any increase
         or decrease in the number of directors shall be apportioned by the
         Board of Directors among the classes to maintain the number of
         directors as nearly equal as possible. The initial Class I directors
         shall hold office until the annual meeting of shareholders of the
         Corporation in 1994, the initial Class II directors shall hold office
         until the annual meeting of shareholders of the Corporation in 1995,
         and the initial Class III directors shall hold office until the annual
         meeting of shareholders of the Corporation in 1996 or, in each case,
         until their successors are elected and qualified and subject to prior
         death, resignation, retirement or removal from office. Beginning in
         1994, at each annual meeting of shareholders, the directors elected to
         succeed those whose terms then expire shall belong to the same class as
         the directors they succeed and shall hold office until the third
         succeeding annual meeting of shareholders or until their successors are
         elected and qualified and subject to the prior death, resignation,
         retirement or removal from office of a director. No decrease in the
         number of directors constituting the Board of Directors shall reduce
         the term of any incumbent director.

                  Whenever the holders of any one or more classes or series of
         Preferred Stock of the Corporation shall have the right to elect
         directors, the election, term of office, filling of vacancies and other
         terms of such directorships shall be governed by the provisions of this
         Certificate of Incorporation applicable to such Preferred Stock and
         such directors shall not be divided into classes pursuant to this
         Article Fifth unless expressly provided or determined as provided
         elsewhere in this Certificate of Incorporation.

                  (C) VACANCIES. Newly created directorships resulting from an
         increase in the number of directors and any vacancies on the Board of
         Directors resulting from any cause shall be filled by a majority of the
         Board of Directors then in office, although less than a quorum, or by a
         sole remaining director. Any director elected to fill a vacancy not
         resulting from an increase in the number of directors shall have the
         same remaining term as his or her predecessor.

                  (D) REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS. The entire Board of Directors of the
         corporation may be removed at any time but only by the affirmative vote
         of the holders of two-thirds or more of the outstanding shares of each
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         the corporation entitled to elect one or more directors at a meeting
         of the shareholders called for such purpose.

                  (E) BYLAWS. The Board of Directors shall have the power to
         make, alter, amend, change, add to or repeal the Bylaws of the
         corporation.

                  SEVENTH: In the event any class of stock of the Corporation is
         registered pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
         for so long as such class of stock of the Corporation is so registered,
         any action that may be taken at any annual or special meeting of the
         shareholders of the Corporation shall be taken only at an annual or
         special meeting of the shareholders of the Corporation and no such
         action shall be taken without such a meeting, regardless of any
         provision of the GCL that permits shareholders to take such an action
         by written consent in lieu of an annual or special meeting of
         shareholders.

                  EIGHTH: Special meetings of the shareholders for any lawful
         purpose or purposes may be called at any time only by a majority of the
         Board of Directors, by the Chairman of the Board or by the President.
         Each call for a special meeting of the shareholders shall state the
         time, the day, the place and the purpose or purposes of such meeting
         and shall be in writing, signed by the persons making the same and
         delivered to the secretary. No business shall be conducted at any
         special meeting of the shareholders other than the business stated in
         the call for such meeting. The shareholders of the Corporation shall
         not be entitled, as a matter of right, to require the Board of
         Directors to call a special meeting of the shareholders or to bring any
         business before a special meeting of the shareholders.

                  TENTH: The affirmative vote of the holders of not less than
         2/3 of the outstanding shares of stock of the Corporation entitled to
         vote generally in the election of directors shall be required to amend,
         modify, alter or repeal Articles Fifth, Eighth and Tenth of this
         Restated Certificate of Incorporation.