To manage the challenges of a major recession, companies often rely on the flexibility and skills of an external workforce — contingent workers, … Read more
As the Contingent Ranks Grow, Employers Need to Treat Them Like Employees
The liquid workforce is on a path of rapid growth as people seek more flexibility and agility in the work they do. In fact, by one estimate a majority of … Read more
What’s Wrong With Hiring a Gig Workforce? Pretty Much Everything (Part 2 of 2)
You can’t read a business publication without hearing about the gig economy and how it can help companies. However, despite the hype, the concept brings … Read more
What’s Wrong With Hiring a Gig Workforce? Pretty Much Everything (Part 1 of 2)
The gig economy has become a hot workforce topic. However, despite the hype, the concept has numerous hidden management problems. Read more
Have You ‘Ubered’ Talent Yet? If Not …What’s Holding You Back?
If you remember the days when we used to have to stand on city streets in downpours, hoping to spot a taxi with a light on that might deign to stop if we … Read more
Gig Platforms: Inspiration Rather Than Competition for the Recruitment Industry
While gig platforms have grown exponentially in the past five years, have attracted lots of media attention, and received heavy venture-capitalist … Read more
Happy New Year to Recruiters, Now Prepare for the Downturn
If you work in recruiting and you are not personally worried about an upcoming downturn, realize that many others are thinking about it. For example, … Read more
The Odds Microsoft Buys Upwork Just Went, Um, Up
Microsoft doesn’t want to lose its hold on enterprise computing. It ousted IBM from that mountaintop many moons ago, and it’ll be damned if … Read more
‘Corporate Skill Pivots’ May Signal the End of the Permanent Employees
Forget the job threats created by the march of the robots, because the new skill sets required by radical new technologies are much more likely to cause … Read more
Pared Lands $10 Million to Connect On-demand Workers With Restaurants
Shiftgig and Snag have a newly funded competitor to worry about. Pared, an Uber-like, on-demand platform connects workers with restaurants, has just raised … Read more