Full-Time to Flexible: The Workforce Shift

Three workforce shifts matter as hospitals plan for 2026:

1. The workforce is more modular.

Clinicians now flex between PRN, travel, interim, and full-time depending on life stage and burnout cycles.

2. Leadership mobility is rising.

Directors and CNOs increasingly treat interim work as strategic career development.

3. Compact licensing is accelerating scale.

Market boundaries are dissolving as more states join the NLC.

For staffing firms, competitive advantage now comes from speed, credentialing efficiency, and specialization—not database size.

Hathaway Healthcare Staffing sits directly in this shift by maintaining an active bench of interim leaders and bedside clinicians who can deploy fast while credentialing runs in parallel.

See how compact-enabled staffing is reshaping deployment models: www.hathawayhealthcarestaffing.com/blog

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