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Staffing CXO Webinar: Protect your agency from cyber threats and strengthen compliance by modernizing benefits delivery and payroll data workflows. This week, hear how leading firms are are using connected, secure benefits systems to stay compliant, protect data, and grow faster.

UPCOMING Executive Brief: Strengthen Compliance + Protect Your Data Register to learn how leading staffing firms are using connected, secure benefits systems to stay compliant, protect data, and grow faster.

The staffing fee isn't going anywhere. Its justification is. I keep hearing the same line from agency leaders: "Our fee is harder to defend than it used to be." It's not "AI is going to kill us." Something quieter than that. For decades, agencies got paid for access. "We can find people you can't." That value isn't gone. It's getting compressed. Three forces are doing the compressing: 1. The market. SIA estimates U.S. staffing revenue fell ~10% in 2024. Their March 2026 update projects only 1% growth this year, to $180.2 billion. Pricing power matters. 2. Direct sourcing. MBO Partners and SIA found nearly 80% of organizations either have a direct sourcing program or plan to within two years. Enterprise buyers are building their own talent infrastructure. 3. AI in the platform layer. Indeed launched Talent Scout, an AI agent that surfaces candidates, drafts outreach, and gives employers market intelligence. LinkedIn, Bullhorn, and Avionté are doing some version of the same thing. Inside the tools your clients already pay for. When access gets cheap, the market stops paying a premium for access alone. The premium moves to assurance. Old pitch: "We found this person." New pitch: "We can stand behind this person." Commodity staffing sells access. AI is coming for that. Strategic staffing sells assurance. Trusted talent supply, verified fit, redeployment of known workers, referral density, and workforce intelligence the client can act on before a requisition is even open. By 2030, the strongest agencies won't be defined by the size of their database. They'll be defined by the strength of their trusted supply. When your next client asks why your fee is worth it, are you defending access or assurance? Full piece on StaffingHub: https://lnkd.in/g5DtsSb4

You're buying the same talent twice. Every staffing agency does it. One healthcare staffing customer ran the numbers: 15% of their placements from Indeed and LinkedIn were already sitting in their ATS. They paid for those candidates twice. You might be wasting $15K to $300K a year. Depends on the size of your agency. 𝗪𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝘅 𝗶𝘁. Every recruiter gets a branded page with their photo, bio, and live jobs. One tap shares it to their network. Every click and placement attributes back to the recruiter and the branch. Stop renting access to candidates you already have. 𝗦𝗲𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀: https://lnkd.in/e26hHWzh Live demos this week. DM me to grab time.