July 8, 2025

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Staffmark Group CEO Stacey Lane Named to ASA Board of Directors
Member Sound Off: How AI Cuts the Clutter
How Are Staffing Firms Using Technology?
ASA Advocacy Update
ASA Advocates for Key Staffing-Related Provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill
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Staffmark Group CEO Stacey Lane Named to ASA Board of Directors

The American Staffing Association announced today that Staffmark Group’s chief executive officer, Stacey Lane, is the newest member of the ASA board of directors. A seasoned executive in the staffing, recruiting, and workforce solutions industry, Lane brings a proven track record of success and innovation to her role on the board.

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Member Sound Off: How AI Cuts the Clutter

Are staffing firms investing in technology to automate repetitive tasks? Do companies use artificial intelligence (AI) to perform recruiting functions? Find out how your peers answered these questions in the latest issue of Staffing Success magazine. Member Sound Off highlights answers to intriguing questions from industry leaders. For this issue, ASA members were asked how they have used AI to streamline operational efforts and improve efficiency.

Access the current issue and back issues of Staffing Success, and other ASA digital publications, at americanstaffing.net/digital.

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How Are Staffing Firms Using Technology?

Technology is advancing at a rapid pace, providing innovative new ways to source, engage, select, and hire candidates. Navigating and understanding the technology landscape, however, is a challenge. ASA and Talent Tech Labs ran an industry-wide survey to understand how staffing firms are utilizing technology and how satisfied they are with specific tools and vendors.

Check out the results for help benchmarking your firm’s use of technology and mapping a technology roadmap. There’s an infographic that highlights the most important strategic findings from that survey—including overall industry adoption, satisfaction with vendors, the average number of technology tools that staffing firms use, and even what the actual industry “tech stack” looks like today.

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ASA Advocacy Update

ASA Advocates for Key Staffing-Related Provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill

Following months of meetings, negotiations, starts and stops, and tweaking, adding, and removing language, Congress passed H.R. 1, “An Act to Provide for Reconciliation Pursuant to Title II of H. Con. Res. 14” (also known as “The One Big Beautiful Bill Act”). The 870-page bill was signed into law by president Trump on July 4.

Since the 119th Congress convened in January, ASA has held more than 60 meetings with key members of Congress and staff of the House Ways and Means Committee, including chairman Jason Smith (R-MO), as well as staff and members of the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. While the bill touches every aspect of federal policy from taxes to health care to immigration to defense to energy, ASA advocacy efforts focused on making permanent Section 199A, the qualified business income deduction; preservation of the Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement classification for temporary workers; preservation of the favorable tax treatment for per diem plans; and the future of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit. See the full article detailing the advocacy efforts and accomplishments of the ASA legal team.

ASA will closely monitor the implementation of H.R. 1, especially as new rules and technical guidance are developed and published. If you have any questions regarding the bill and how it may affect your company, feel free to reach out to the ASA legal department.

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