42% of staffing agencies lost revenue in 2025, and 69% of them expect a rebound in 2026. The cheapest way to get there is more work from the accounts you already hold. Public staffing firms have to disclose what that strategy does to their client mix, and their numbers give you something to measure your own book against.
Staffing firms aren't building offshore delivery teams just to cut costs anymore. The ones finding value are strategic about what to move offshore, what stays local, and how they vet and manage the handoff.
Software vendor glossaries supply most of the redeployment benchmarks in circulation, and the most-repeated one rests on a 2014 survey. ASA's published figures point to roughly six hires for every temporary seat filled each year, and you can compute median lifetime days from payroll records you already have.
Recruiting closes the deal. Operations has to run it, often from a record that just says "placed." The risk is losing track of what got agreed to once the handoff happens.
A 50% markup nets a 33% gross margin before costs, and net margins at two public staffing firms have fallen to 2%-4% since 2021. Here's the math on why your spread is thinner than it looks, and how to reprice by segment instead of across your whole book
Staffing execs reveal the 5 decisions shaping their 2027 plans, from gross profit growth to owned sourcing and market share.
Dan Mastropolo has a quick answer for how Shift Fillers hit No. 1 on SIA's list of the fastest-growing staffing firms in a brutal...
Rodrigo Alcaine has run staffing from both sides of the table, as a tech vendor and now as CEO of Eastridge Workforce Solutions, and...
Merge two 40-year-old staffing companies, rebrand the whole thing, roll out a new ATS, and you'd expect culture to be the first casualty. Michelle...
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Adecco Group is targeting more than 50% of its global revenue moving through agentic AI by December 31, 2026, backed by a...