Scott Baradell laid it out plainly in a recent Yahoo Finance article . Contractors represent the brand. Yet many organizations treat the compliance gauntlet they must run as an afterthought. The result? Nearly four in 10 walk away for good. Not a minor operational hiccup. A brand wound that festers. In healthcare especially the stakes run high. Hospitals leaned hard on contract labor during shortages. Expenses jumped 202% from 2019 to 2022, the American Hospital Association reported. Traveling nurses, locum tenens physicians, credentialed vendors became indispensable. They fill gaps. They carry the load. And the first impression they receive often comes through a broken onboarding machine. But the pattern stretches across construction, energy, and healthcare alike. In oil and gas, contractor establishments now account for more than two-thirds of the U.S. extraction workforce, per Bureau of Labor Statistics analysis.…