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ALT Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) and global provider of staffing software Bullhorn bring you the SIA | Bullhorn Staffing Indicator for the week ending October 31, 2026: 🟦 US Staffing hours were up 12% compared to a year ago in the week ending October 31st and reached another year-to-date high. Commercial hours were up 13% y/y while Professional hours were up 10% compared to a year ago. 🟦 Looking at the month-to-month trend so far this year, both Commercial and Professional staffing hours have displayed a positive sequential growth trend. 🟦 On a skill segment level, Industrial occupation hours were up 18% y/y. IT occupation hours were up 7% y/y, and Office/Clerical hours were down 7% y/y. 🟦 Industrial staffing hours have shown an impressive ramp starting in late April and continuing through October, as demand has returned from clients in manufacturing and logistics, as well as areas related to data center construction.
ALT “Today’s report is an excellent reading for the staffing industry, with 18,600 temp help jobs added in October, and the prior two months revised up by 20,600 jobs,” said Staffing Industry Analysts Senior Vice President of Research Timothy Landhuis. “In addition, job gains in the sectors of manufacturing, and transportation and warehousing, averaged 17,700 and 12,800 jobs, respectively, over the past three months, in an encouraging sign for cyclical growth in the overall economy.” Analysts: Michael Schultz and Timothy Landhuis
ALT McKnight's Long-Term Care News examines a 44% decline in nursing home agency staff use since 2022. The article draws on Staffing Industry Analysts' (SIA) US Healthcare Staffing Market Growth Assessment 2026 and insights from SIA Senior Healthcare Research Analyst Crystal Fullilove. Nursing homes face a combination of financial pressures, reimbursement constraints and ongoing recruitment challenges, particularly for hard-to-fill clinical roles. “Those facilities still have limited flexibility,” Fullilove said. “Their need for clinicians is still there, but they have to be strategic about how they manage their labor expenses.” The article also explores efforts to strengthen recruitment and retention through training and professional development opportunities.
ALT Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) and global provider of staffing software Bullhorn bring you the SIA | Bullhorn Staffing Indicator for the week ending October 24: 🟦 US Staffing hours were up 11% compared to a year ago in the week ending October 24 and reached another year-to-date high. Commercial hours were up 12% y/y while Professional hours were up 9% compared to a year ago. 🟦 On a skill segment level, Industrial occupation hours were up 17% y/y. IT occupation hours were up 5% y/y, and Office/Clerical hours were down 7% y/y. 🟦 Industrial staffing hours have shown an impressive ramp starting in late April and continuing through October, as demand has returned from clients in manufacturing and logistics, as well as areas related to data center construction. 🟦 SIA believes professional staffing hours are being lifted this year by increasing demand for temporary IT and healthcare professionals, and also engineering, life science and education professionals.
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ALT Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) and global provider of staffing software Bullhorn bring you the SIA | Bullhorn Staffing Indicator for the week ending October 10, 2026: 🟦 Staffing hours were up 11% compared to a year ago in the week ending October 10 and reached another year-to-date high. 🟦 Commercial hours were up 12% y/y and also reached a new year-to-date high. Professional hours were up 9% compared to a year ago and remained close to their year-to-date highest level reached the previous week. 🟦 On a skill segment level, Industrial occupation hours were up 17% y/y and reached the benchmarked Indicator value of 100 (a level last seen in December 2022). 🟦 IT occupation hours were up 6% y/y, and Office/Clerical hours were down 7% y/y.
