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KPMG: 89% of US CEOs expect headcount to grow over the next 3 years. 53% also plan cuts in some areas. Both at once means the job order you filled last year may not match the role your client needs now.
DOJ: North Korean operatives posing as remote IT workers got hired at up to 70 US companies, and their laptops went to farms in Texas. 187 devices seized. If you place remote contractors, who checks where the laptop actually ships?
Loading and stocking roles are now about 9% of seasonal postings on Indeed, up from 3.5% in 2019. Holiday hiring keeps moving off the sales floor and into the warehouse. Light industrial desks: is your seasonal bench built for that?
SIA expects 2026 travel nurse revenue up 2% to $14.3B after three years of declines. Without strike work it would have fallen. Strike work lifts a quarter but does not repeat on command. How much of your healthcare revenue would remain if it stopped tomorrow?
Contingent labor is 15-25% of workforce spend at many orgs, yet only 23% of executives enforce vendor compliance to a high standard and 38% trust their forecasts. Clients need proof from their vendors. Could you produce a clean record for every placement today?
349,821 active tech postings now ask for AI skills, up 282% since May 2024. Workday says basic AI skill demand is down 25% since January while hands-on demand is up 51%. "AI experience" on a job order means little now. What do you ask clients to pin it down?
JobSource (founded 1994) and The Reserves Network (1984, 40+ locations) are merging and keeping both identities. The pitch is faster fills and deeper talent pools. That only works if the combined firm can search one database. Merging firms: what is your day-one data plan?
Staffing hours hit a 2026 high: the SIA | Bullhorn index is at 106, up 9% YoY. But industrial is +15% while office/clerical is -8%. The average says the market is fine. Your desk mix says whether your quarter is. Which side of that split are you on?
In Q3 staffing M&A, buyers paid for scarce specialties and scheduling tech. One platform in a deal had 68% of providers self-scheduling. If workers can book their own shifts, what is the recruiter's real job? We say the pool and the relationship. Agree?
California's No Robo Bosses Act (effective July 1, 2027) requires human sign-off plus written notice to affected workers. Colorado scaled back to disclosure and human review. Different laws, same message: someone has to own the decision. Does your ATS log who?
SThree's board unanimously rejected Circle8's unsolicited bid as undervaluing the company. Circle8 has until 5:00 p.m. today to make a firm offer or walk. When a buyer and a board disagree on value, the side with cleaner data usually argues better. Is yours clean?
Lyft's $272.5M California settlement covers driver misclassification from 2016 to 2020. The payout arrived years after the work happened. If you run W-2 and 1099 talent side by side, could you reconstruct who worked what, under which classification, five years later?
Payrolls +29K vs 84K expected. Temp help -10,900 on the month, but still +0.6% year over year, four straight months of annual growth. Staffing moves first on the way down and first on the way back up. How fast can your firm flex when a client changes its mind?
MSP spend under management: $244B globally, up 4%. The seven largest MSPs control more than 70% of it. For a lot of enterprise contingent work, the scorecard now matters as much as the relationship. Do you know where you rank inside your programs?
Bullhorn's new data: 92% of candidates rate AI voice interviews as good as or better than a human one. Also: 91% who hear from their recruiter weekly would keep working with them. Let AI handle the speed. Spend the time it saves on the calls that earn loyalty.
Five agentic recruiting products launched on the same day last week. Every one pitched "agentic, full-funnel, integrated." When the pitch is identical, the questions that matter are about your data: what does the agent write back to your ATS, and who can audit what it decided?
New Jersey's revised ABC test is set to take effect Oct. 1. The state says nothing changes. Business groups say it tightens who counts as a contractor. Lawmakers in both parties want a delay. When classification gets murky, W-2 staffing gets a lot more attractive.
SIA raised its 2026 industrial staffing forecast from 1% to 7%. Its own read: few firms are actually growing near 7%. The market has split into low single digits and strong double digits, with almost nothing in between. Which track are you on, and do you know why?
Indeed's lead over LinkedIn Jobs is down to 4 points, 31.6% to 27.7% (6sense). Both are pouring AI budget into agents that search, screen, and reach out on their own. Job boards used to be where you posted a role. Now they're competing for the sourcing work itself.
Full-time independent workers in the US doubled from 13.6M in 2020 to 27.7M in 2024 (MBO Partners). 2025: ~27.6M, flat. The exponential growth phase looks over. Most contingent workforce planning still assumes the curve, not the plateau.