May Jobs Report: Hiring Holds Steady as Temp Help Posts Third Straight Monthly Gain
Key takeaways:
Payrolls rose but growth stayed moderate: BLS reported total nonfarm employment grew by 172,000 in May, roughly in line with April’s revised gain of 179,000,...
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May Jobs Report: Hiring Holds Steady as Temp Help Posts Third Straight Monthly Gain
Key takeaways:
Payrolls rose but growth stayed moderate: BLS reported total nonfarm employment grew by 172,000 in May, roughly in line with April’s revised gain of 179,000,...
New Report: What Manual Back Office Operations Are Actually Costing You
Key takeaways:
Processing one placement's onboarding paperwork costs $59.92 in direct labor, before accounting for compliance exposure or DSO drag from billing errors.
The average gross margin...
StaffingHub Brief: Revenue Rebounds, AI Pays Off, and State Regulators Close In
Welcome to this week's StaffingHub Brief, your strategic intelligence roundup for staffing agency leaders. In this week's issue:
Staffing revenue hit its highest growth rate in three...
Why Recruitment Automation Software Isn’t Enough Anymore
By Dries De Coster, CEO & Founder, meet DWIGHT
The UK recruitment sector shed nearly £4 billion in gross value added last year. Permanent placements fell by a...
New Report: The 2026 Staffing Industry Loyalty & Referral Benchmark
Key takeaways:
Referred candidates worked 50 to 82% more lifetime days than job board hires across light industrial, healthcare, and travel nursing, based on 882,004 placements over...
More AI Won’t Save Contracting Staffing Agencies. The Data Says Discipline Will.
Key takeaways:
AI is the most-cited tech priority for staffing in 2026, with 39% of agencies ranking it #1 in our benchmark. But the data shows AI...
Winning Clients Is Now Staffing’s Hardest Problem. The Sales Model Hasn’t Caught Up.
Key takeaways:
Winning clients overtook finding talent as the hardest part of running a staffing agency. In our 2026 benchmark, 31% of operators named demand softness or...
New Report: Beyond Job Board Dependency
Key takeaways:
The median job board cost-per-hire rose to $1,340 across all occupations in 2025. For technology roles specifically, it more than doubled in a single year...
The 2026 State of Staffing Benchmarking Report Is Now Live
Key takeaways:
Though 42% of agencies lost revenue last year, the contraction was uneven. One full point on a seven-point operational maturity scale separated growth agencies from...
StaffingHub Brief: Industrial Hours Hold, M&A Heats Up, and the Resume Is Losing Its...
Welcome to this week's StaffingHub Brief, your strategic intelligence roundup for staffing agency leaders. In this week's issue:
Industrial staffing hours rose 9% year over year for...
