The Staffing Tasks Draining Profitability Every Week
By Dries De Coster, CEO & Founder, meet DWIGHT
Key takeaways:
Staffing agencies average just 23.2% gross margins, and with 42% reporting revenue declines in 2025, operational inefficiency...
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The Staffing Tasks Draining Profitability Every Week
By Dries De Coster, CEO & Founder, meet DWIGHT
Key takeaways:
Staffing agencies average just 23.2% gross margins, and with 42% reporting revenue declines in 2025, operational inefficiency...
Q2 2026 Staffing M&A Roundup: PE Writes Its Biggest Healthcare Check in Four Years
Key takeaways:
Knox Lane's $437 million all-cash acquisition of Cross Country Healthcare was Q2's signature deal and marks one of the largest PE-backed healthcare staffing transactions since...
The Generalist Healthcare Recruiter Is a Job You’re Training People Out Of
Key takeaways:
The healthcare staffing recruiter role is dividing into two specialties: credentialing and compliance experts on one side, relationship-driven account owners on the other. And AI...
StaffingHub Brief: SIA Confidence at 4-Year High, AI Adoption Yields Low ROI, and California’s...
Welcome to this week’s StaffingHub Brief, your strategic intelligence roundup for staffing agency leaders. In this week’s issue:
SIA’s new Staffing Confidence Index opened at 128.7 in...
Understanding AI Compliance Obligations, Following Colorado’s Scaled-Back Legislation
Key takeaways:
In May 2026, Colorado replaced its rigorous AI Act with a significantly less demanding version that removes requirements for bias audits and risk assessments. This...
Reshoring and Data Centers Are Driving Industrial Staffing’s Comeback
Key takeaways:
Industrial staffing led all segments in SIA's spring data, posting 5% median year-over-year revenue growth in April while the overall industry forecast sits at 1%....
Meet SKY: Benefits That Run Themselves — and Keep Temps Longer
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Benefits shouldn't slow your firm down. For most staffing companies, enrollment means paperwork, branch-staff hand-holding, and re-keying elections into payroll and carrier...
You Don’t Have a Lead Problem. You Have a Leak Problem.
The three hidden revenue drains quietly bleeding placements out of your staffing firm, and how the best agencies are sealing them.
Every staffing leader knows the reflex: growth...
StaffingHub Brief: Industrial Hours Climb 7%, Half the Workforce Is Ready to Move, and...
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 in...
The Staffing Recruiter Job Is Being Redesigned by AI. Most Agencies Are Hiring for...
Key takeaways:
Employers were 54 times more likely to list "relationship development" as a required recruiter skill last year than the year before, according to LinkedIn data....