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2026 service franchise hiring report
Get service franchise hiring benchmarks based on millions of applicants, with insights to improve sourcing, candidate response speed, and hiring performance.
Most fitness franchises treat hiring as one problem: not enough applicants. CareerPlug’s 2026 Franchise Hiring Report says otherwise. Fitness has two separate hiring problems living side
Fitness franchises post the most jobs in October. Applicants are hardest to find in October. That single mismatch is costing fitness brands hires they could have
Always be hiring means keeping a candidate pipeline going year-round, so your next hire is already in motion before you actually need someone. It’s a system,
Social media for hiring means using the audience you already have, followers, customers, current employees, to attract and hire applicants, instead of paying to rent strangers
How to market your jobs isn’t about buying more job-board slots. It’s about recruiting like you sell: building demand for the role you control, instead of
Joint employer risk is the exposure a franchisor takes on when the law decides it shares enough control over a franchisee’s employees to be held legally
A 54% interview-to-hire rate is completely normal in fitness. That same rate in cleaning services would be more than four times the industry’s actual average. Compare
Most hiring software pitches sound the same: more automation, more AI, more integrations, one dashboard to fix it all. For a franchise, the real test is
Last week we published our 2026 franchise hiring report. This is the first cross-industry hiring report created specifically for the service franchise segment. We pulled 2025
