StaffingHub Brief: Staffing Growth Rebounds, Candidates Lead in AI Use, and H-1B Bill Targets Staffing Firms
Welcome to this week's StaffingHub Brief, your strategic intelligence roundup for staffing agency leaders. In this week's issue:
US staffing hours rose 2% year over year for...
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StaffingHub Brief: Staffing Growth Rebounds, Candidates Lead in AI Use, and H-1B Bill Targets...
Welcome to this week's StaffingHub Brief, your strategic intelligence roundup for staffing agency leaders. In this week's issue:
US staffing hours rose 2% year over year for...
What Staffing Agencies Get Paid For Is Changing, From Access to Assurance
By 2030, AI sourcing agents will be a default feature inside the tools enterprise hiring teams already use. Not a separate product. Not a premium add-on. Just...
AI-Inflated Resumes Are a Staffing Problem Now, Not a Hiring Manager Problem
Key takeaways:
AI-generated applications have reached a scale that's actively slowing hiring: 67% of HR leaders report the review process has gotten longer, and 65% say these...
Why Candidate Engagement Is Collapsing Just as Hiring Speeds Up
Key takeaways:
Companies screened candidates 13% faster in 2025 and cut time-to-fill by four days, but candidate experience scores averaged just 2.9 out of 5. Speed gains...
[Webinar] How Staffing Firms Increase Earnings with Benefits Done Right
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Staffing firms operate in one of the most complex benefits environments in the workforce economy. High-volume onboarding, frequent payroll changes, and workforce...
StaffingHub Brief: M&A Momentum, Job Seeking Despite Satisfaction, and the I-9 Liability
Welcome to this week's StaffingHub Brief, your strategic intelligence roundup for staffing agency leaders. In this week's issue:
Initial jobless claims rose to 214,000 in the week...
Q1 2026 Staffing M&A Roundup: 35 Deals Signal the Market’s Sharpest Opening in Three...
Key takeaways:
The staffing M&A market recorded 35 transactions in Q1 2026, the strongest opening quarter in at least three years, with IT staffing and executive search...
StaffingHub Brief: Uncertainty Is Driving Temp Demand, and Regulation Is Closing In
Welcome to this week's StaffingHub Brief, your strategic intelligence roundup for staffing agency leaders. In this week's issue:
U.S. private employers added an average of 39,250 jobs...
Partnering with Digital Workers in the Staffing Industry with Dries De Coster
What would success in the staffing industry look like if we leveraged the use of AI to save employees time and make them more efficient? Today, on...
AI Won’t Replace Staffing Firms, But It Will Redefine Their Value
By John Sansoucie, Chairman & CEO, CogNet
Key takeaways:
AI's biggest near-term impact on staffing isn't candidate sourcing, but back-office operations, where automation can reduce processing time on...