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Urgent Update: RECOVERING INTO A RATE HIKE (opens the original)
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The staffing industry is growing for the first time in three years.On Wednesday, the Fed raised rates for the first time in three years.Same week. That's the whole episode. A solo briefing, recorded Wednesday afternoon after the decision, on what it means to be recovering straight into a rate hike — if you run a desk, a branch, or a book of business. What's in it:→ SIA tripled its 2026 forecast — from +0.8% to +2.4%, about $183 billion — and industrial just became the largest segment in the indu
Where are all the CTOs in Staffing? (opens the original)
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He stood up in a room full of staffing leaders who'd spent all day saying AI is the future of this industry, and asked two questions:"How many of you in this room are technologists?""And where are your CTOs?"Nobody raised a hand.That silence is the whole episode.Daniel Mastropolo runs a large staffing firm with about 20 people and no office — the #1 fastest-growing staffing company in the country. He also spent five years as a fractional CTO to 17 firms. So when he says our industry is an easy m
July Jobs Report, Staffing trends and AI news (opens the original)
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Payrolls went negative in July.Temporary help went up.Not by much — 3,400 jobs. But that number did something no temp help print has done in 45 months. It put this industry into year-over-year growth for the first time since October 2022.Same week, the ISM manufacturing employment index crossed 50 for the first time in 33 months.Two multi-year losing streaks broke in the same seven days. Both of them in light industrial. In a report the headlines called bad.Here's what I think is happening. When
How Do You Grow When the Market Isn't Coming Back? (opens the original)
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Waiting for the staffing market to "bounce back" has quietly become a strategy. It might also be the wrong one. What if 2022 was the peak — and we don't get back to it? That's the question at the center of the next episode of The Staffing Playbook, and I brought on the one person with the data to actually answer it: Eric Gregg, co-founder and CX strategist at ClearlyRated. Eric has spent two decades — and millions of surveys — studying how staffing buyers and candidates actually behave. His newe
The Whipsaw: Reading A Market That's Turning (opens the original)
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Three weeks ago, US staffing hours printed down 2%. Commercial, down 4. The word "stall" started showing up in headlines. The Staffing Playbook Podcast, Powered by YES (https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-staffing-playbook-podcast/) Last Tuesday, the same indicator printed up 11%. Industrial — up 19%. Here's the thing: both numbers had a holiday in them. Ep. 80 of The Staffing Playbook is about the most whipsawed month this industry's tape has had all year — and how an operator reads it without
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