Way back (and I mean, waaaaay back) in 2009, I was on record as saying the contignent workforce would come out the Great Recession looking much, much different. The stats were there to prove it: 20% of the workforce around the globe was considered “non-employee,” a nearly 40% increase from pre-Recession days.
I mean, I also said this workforce was a “superhero,” so, yeah.
The point is this: there is a commanding undercurrent of fluidity and agility inherent in the extended workforce that makes it a malleable channel of talent for (nearly) no matter what the business world throws at us.
Ardent Partners and Future of Work Exchange research pegs that aforementioned stat at 49.7% of the average company’s workforce considered to be external/contingent/extended/etc., a factor which proves something very, very, very powerful:
The extended workforce isn’t a category anymore.
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