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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.

Understanding the American Franchise Act

Learn how the American Franchise Act could bring clarity to joint employer rules and help franchisors better support their franchisees.

The Franchise People Playbook

Discover a practical framework to help franchise brands improve hiring, retention, career growth, and team development across every location.

Every hiring software homepage makes the same pitch: more AI, more automation, more integrations, all promising to fix hiring from one dashboard. For a franchise, that

A side-by-side for multi-unit franchisees and franchisors weighing both platforms, built on data from 7.5 million franchise applicants rather than marketing claims. BusinessDraft has published a

We recently published one of the most ambitious reports that the CareerPlug team has taken on in a while. We pulled data from about 46,000 franchise

We just released our 2026 franchise hiring report. Most of the report focuses on data from 2025 — applicants per hire, time to first contact, and

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

CareerPlug has spent more than a decade building hiring and retention software for franchise networks. Today we partner with more than 400 franchise brands — ranging

“How are we doing compared to other brands?” This is the hiring question that franchisors ask me the most. It’s a fair thing to want to

Franchising is as close as you can get to a guaranteed business model. Franchisees get a proven product, an established brand, a marketing playbook, a supply

I recently had a chance to speak with a franchise leader at one of the country’s largest tax prep companies about how they retain seasonal staff.

Looking at franchise hiring data in April can be very telling. The numbers usually aren’t good, but that’s not what I’m looking for. I’m paying attention

“The biggest difference between your top and bottom performing franchisees is the quality of their teams.” I said this probably a dozen times at IFA in

A Partnership to Strengthen the Caregiver Workforce At CareerPlug, we know that hiring caregivers has never been more challenging. With 5 million caregivers currently in the