Amazon: 300,000+ holiday hires, up 20%. Challenger: seasonal retail hiring likely the lowest since 2008. If you staff warehouses, your client now competes with $20/hr and, from Jan 1, 2027, day one healthcare for seasonal staff. What's the counteroffer?

Randstad Q3: US Operational revenue up 19%. Perm fees down 4%. Clients are adding hourly workers again and still waiting on direct hire. Which one is your firm seeing move first?

UPMC has been a VeloSource client since 2017. Now its venture arm owns a minority stake in the firm. Most staffing firms want a seat at their best client's table. This one put the client on its cap table. What would it take for yours?

OECD employment hit a record 70.4% in Q2. Youth unemployment rose to 11.3% in August, while it held at 4.2% for workers 25+. The experienced people are working. The young ones are waiting on a first job. Staffing used to be how a lot of them got it. Still true?

66% of recruiters say AI made their jobs easier. Only 18% say more than half their time has moved off admin work (Employ, Recruiter Nation 2026). A faster step doesn't help much if the work around it is still manual. Where does your team's admin time go?

32% of workers 55+ would keep working past retirement age (SD Worx, Europe). Only 5% of them are job hunting, vs 19% of under-35s. The most experienced people in your market will never see your job post. Who on your desk is calling them?

KPMG: 89% of US CEOs expect headcount to grow over the next 3 years. 53% also plan cuts in some areas. Both at once means the job order you filled last year may not match the role your client needs now.

DOJ: North Korean operatives posing as remote IT workers got hired at up to 70 US companies, and their laptops went to farms in Texas. 187 devices seized. If you place remote contractors, who checks where the laptop actually ships?

Loading and stocking roles are now about 9% of seasonal postings on Indeed, up from 3.5% in 2019. Holiday hiring keeps moving off the sales floor and into the warehouse. Light industrial desks: is your seasonal bench built for that?

SIA expects 2026 travel nurse revenue up 2% to $14.3B after three years of declines. Without strike work it would have fallen. Strike work lifts a quarter but does not repeat on command. How much of your healthcare revenue would remain if it stopped tomorrow?

Contingent labor is 15-25% of workforce spend at many orgs, yet only 23% of executives enforce vendor compliance to a high standard and 38% trust their forecasts. Clients need proof from their vendors. Could you produce a clean record for every placement today?