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A New Era of Innovation, Part III: The Next Generation of Workforce Solutions

Contingent Workforce Direct Sourcing Solution Providers Technology and Innovation by Christopher J. Dwyer on 08/01/2023

Over the past two weeks, the Future of Work Exchange has featured a series of articles that have highlighted the innovation occurring within the world of workforce management, talent acquisition, and staffing technology and solutions.

In a business world that is hyper-competitive and globalized, enterprises essentially run on talent. In such a corporate climate, there are many factors that can prohibit the modern enterprise from succeeding. Perhaps the largest of these is the major skills gap that exists within a majority of businesses today, and the inability to support critical projects and initiatives with necessary expertise.

In today’s rapidly evolving talent landscape, a plethora of channels has emerged, offering businesses a variety of options to source and manage their workforce. From digital staffing marketplaces and traditional staffing vendors to professional services, talent networks, and social media platforms, the choices are endless.

The scope around these choices is an idea, omni-channel talent acquisition, that Ardent Partners and the Future of Work Exchange has heralded since 2021. The concepts behind omni-channel talent acquisition are all pure reflections of the Future of Work movement in 2023: flexibility, agility, scalability, and technology.

The next generation of workforce solutions are tailored to meet the demands of omni-channel talent acquisition whilst reinforcing the core principles of flexible talent, workforce agility, workforce scalability, and innovative automation.

AMS

A true innovator, AMS is a multifaceted solution that is founded on “workforce dexterity” through a blend of human capital, contingent workforce, direct sourcing, managed service, and digital offerings. AMS’ core solutions enable companies to stay competitive, innovate, and navigate uncertainties successfully via market-leading managed direct sourcing, Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), and talent advisory offerings.

AMS recently pioneered a unique solution, AMS One, that is a digitized layer of flexibility, AI-powered analytics for real-time insights, faster hiring, and improved diversity within hiring initiatives. It enhances the candidate experience and hiring manager satisfaction, streamlining processes while maintaining a human touch. This groundbreaking convergence of digitization and human-led services positions AMS as a next-generation solution that is tailored for the Future of Work movement’s candidate-centric implications.

HiredScore

The realm of artificial intelligence is, perhaps, the foundational layer of the Future of Work movement’s technological impact. AI is a quintessial “rising tide” that has the power and potential to reshape how businesses structure talent acquisition, workforce management, and everything in-between.

HiredScore represents not only the future of artificial intelligence, but the veritable evolution of workforce technology through the application of flexible, agile, and real-time AI-powered HR functionality. The platform provides personalized career coaching, optimizes talent intelligence, boosts candidate (and hiring manager) engagement, and ensures compliance.

HiredScore’s “Talent Orchestration” platform blends frictionless integrations with core talent management systems (VMS, ATS, etc.) with proactive and actionable recommendations, all rooted in AI-led functionality. The real-time nature of the tool empowers hiring, talent acquisition, and HR stakeholders with real-time intelligence to enhance talent engagement, improve transparency, and transform talent outreach.

HireArt

As we covered in the first entry in this FOWX series, the extended workforce has reached such great heights, with 49.5% of the average enterprise’s total workforce now comprised of contingent talent. This continued (and meteoric) rise in both growth and prominence has sparked a greater need to effectively manage the full lifecycle of processes inherent in today’s more flexible, more impactful contingent workforce management (CWM) programs.

HireArt advances the future of digital staffing with agile solutions encompassing workforce management, Vendor Management System (VMS) technology, and innovative recruiting functionality. Beyond typical talent networks, their cutting-edge platform combines attraction and management of the external workforce; and, with a robust VMS-like solution, HireArt offers a comprehensive blend of compliance, risk management, recruitment, onboarding, and tactical workforce automation, empowering businesses to optimize their contingent workforce more effectively.

Toptal

Toptal is synonymous with the digital staffing revolution, with over a decade of providing customers around the globe with top-notch talent matches through its proprietary blend of digital tools, MSP-like services, and a talent network that boasts the top 3% of candidates in a given field.

Since its inception in 2010, Toptal has demonstrated a commitment to innovation and client satisfaction, adapting to remote work trends and enabling seamless collaboration for distributed teams worldwide. By connecting businesses with global talent, Toptal transcends geographical boundaries, providing limitless professional opportunities. Over the last 18 months, Toptal has grown its “Practices” team, offering clients access to subject matter experts in diverse technology and business fields like cloud services, information security, quality assurance, digital marketing, and management consulting.

Toptal continues to push the boundaries of digital staffing by converging Future of Work-era thinking with a high-touch, value-driven model that traverses the limitations of traditional acquisition strategies.

Stay tuned for the next article in our feature series on the workforce technology revolution.

A New Era of Innovation: Inside the Workforce Technology Revolution (Part One)

Talent Acquisition Technology and Innovation by Christopher J. Dwyer on 07/17/2023

It may be difficult to share this perception, given the fact that we’re still mired in an uncertain economic climate, but businesses today are in a rosier position than they ever were before regarding how they find and manage talent (and the ways they address how work is done). The Future of Work Exchange (and the nearly 17 years’ worth of research within its foundation) has often stated that talent is an enterprise’s top competitive differentiator. Throw in a global pandemic that ushered in a new era of work, along with a reimagining of the talent acquisition function, and what we have is a business market that will, probably forever, be laser-focused on the skillsets and expertise required to thrive on a truly global scale.

This, of course, places the utmost significance on a key arena within the typical enterprise: its utilization of workforce management technology, which includes extended workforce management, talent acquisition, talent intelligence, remote/hybrid workplace augmentation, direct sourcing, compliance and risk mitigation, and more.

Today’s workforce management platforms (a broad term, yes, but one that encompasses so many of the core functions addressed within contingent workforce or talent acquisition initiatives) look markedly different than just a few years ago, when an emerging virus upended life and business. In a post-pandemic world, one in which the Future of Work “movement” is nearly fully-realized from both enterprise and worker perspectives, it is these workforce-oriented platforms that will:

Revolutionize the art of direct sourcing. Platforms such as WorkLLama were battle-tested in staffing, which allowed them to plug-and-play directly into the contemporary needs of the modern business; WorkLLama’s provides a robust take on direct sourcing, via a slew of Best-in-Class technology oriented around ATS, candidate experience, referrals, and talent community development. LiveHire has been a market leader for over a decade for a reason: they have perfected the convergence of total talent management and direct sourcing with their unique approaches towards talent mobility, talent experience management, and enterprise-grade software that is integration-ready into greater HR and workforce systems.
Reimagine the massive applications of artificial intelligence. AI has become ubiquitous in its size, scope, and impact; every business, no matter the sector or region or size, has either implemented AI-fueled capabilities into its operations or has begun the process of doing so. Platforms like Opptly are actively reimagining the implications of AI in talent acquisition through next-level artificial intelligence tools that enhance talent matching, augment candidate engagement, and proactively prioritize “skills DNA.” Digital staffing giant Upwork recently integrated generative AI into its market-leading “work marketplace” offerings through new flexible AI work opportunities for candidates and a new “AI services hub” that is powered by OpenAI technologies. (The company also announced its collaboration with Jasper, a prominent generative AI content generation platform that will providing workers on the platform with cutting-edge generative AI tools to enhance productivity and elevate the quality of their work.)
Transform the ways businesses manage the extended workforce. Only a couple of years ago, the phrase “extended workforce” began to overcome the traditional uses of “contingent workforce”; this was not another buzzy, fad-driven shift in nomenclature but rather a reimagining of the non-employee workforce to encompass and reflect its true value and impact (especially since, as discovered via Ardent Partners and Future of Work Exchange research, the extended workforce comprises 49.% of all enterprise talent today). Beeline was a major force in this transition, transmuting Vendor Management System (VMS) functionality into technology that was more meaningful and deliberate. The platform has since unveiled forward-thinking offerings such as its Global Workforce Intelligence tool (a total talent intelligence-driven module that provides real-time insights into total talent), high-volume and shift management automation via its JoinedUp acquisition, and upgrading its Hiring Manager Experience (HMX) to better support the roles that are actively fighting the war for talent. Worksome is actively making waves through its agile, flexible, and end-to-end offering that focuses on the contractor experience while also being built for digital talent engagement and frictionless contingent workforce management. The solution represents a new and exciting crop of providers that blend freelancer management functionality with powerful technology that has the potential to disrupt the extended workforce solutions market.

Stay tuned for Part Two of this article series, in which we’ll highlight other innovative workforce management platforms that are actively reconceptualizing the Future of Work and the many ways businesses find, engage, and manage talent.

Leverage Digital Staffing Expert Networks

Business Leadership General Insights HR Solution Providers Talent Acquisition Technology and Innovation by John Yuva on 07/05/2023

Many times, it’s been said that having the right talent in the right place at the right time is paramount to a successful workforce strategy. While enterprises have often used traditional staffing firms to source candidates, this is no longer a viable option in today’s competitive labor marketplace. Instead, organizations are turning to digital staffing expert networks to recruit and hire candidates quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively.

Transformative Shift to Digital Staffing

The focus on skills-based hiring is helping drive the transformation toward digital staffing. The ability to gain access to candidates with specific skills, competencies, and experience on a global scale is game-changing for many enterprises.

According to a blog post from Upwork, a global digital staffing provider connecting businesses with independent professionals and agencies, says, “As the internet has become a staple in the lives of people around the world, it has also become a central component in the modern job search.

“With the ability to match independent professionals with the skills and experience to perform excellent work to companies looking for the talent that will fit their needs, digital staffing should be a central component in the talent search for companies of all sizes.”

Leverage Digital Staffing Expert Network Offerings

As more enterprises incorporate digital staffing into their workforce strategies, they can leverage certain benefits unattainable with traditional staffing approaches. Several digital staffing providers from Upwork to Jombone, a Canadian digital staffing agency, and others cited a few of the major advantages digital staffing brings.

Cost Efficiency

Traditional talent acquisition methods can be time-consuming and expensive. Digital staffing puts pre-vetted experts from extensive databases into the hands of HR and business managers, streamlining the hiring process. According to Jombone, “Finding the right candidates for your business is critical to success, but paying too much to source them can drain your bottom line before they’ve even worked a single day. This is where a staffing platform can offer a more affordable solution.”

Specialized Expertise

One of the leading benefits of utilizing a digital staffing expert network is access to an often-extensive database of specialized professionals. Project managing a critical initiative and need certain expertise to solve a business challenge? Is there a new role for an expanding department where specific experience is required? Expert networks allow organizations to tap into their expertise to enhance problem-solving capabilities or ramp up departmental knowledge.

Networking and Relationship Building

An overlooked benefit of using digital staffing networks is corporate networking and relationship building. Engage with experienced professionals within expert networks to not only connect on immediate projects and job openings but also future collaborations, partnerships, or mentorship opportunities. Organizations can expand their professional network and tap into a broader ecosystem of experts.

Global Recruitment Pool

As Upwork stated previously, online digital staffing databases have revolutionized talent recruitment and talent acquisition processes. The access to a global pool of talent enables organizations to engage experts from different geographical locations, leveraging international expertise and diverse markets and cultures. Not only does this provide a global reach for talent needs but also broadens the possibilities for collaboration, market expansion, and cross-border projects.

Use of a digital staffing platform and an expert network database is table stakes in today’s quest for talent. It not only streamlines talent acquisition but also generates bottom-line savings. Regardless of organizational size, utilization of expert networks can be a competitive differentiator.

The Talent Supply Chain Is Evolving…It’s Time to Rethink How We Approach It

Contingent Workforce Direct Sourcing Events Talent Talent Acquisition by Christopher J. Dwyer on 03/22/2023

Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of joining Prosperix‘s CEO, Sunil Bagai, and Defiant Solutions’ Bryan Pena for a spirited discussion on the evolution of the talent supply chain. Everything You Know About The Talent Supply Chain Is Wrong featured some new Ardent Partners and Future of Work Exchange research, as well as a high-energy roundtable chat focused on how businesses can balance the power of today’s progressive labor market with the proper strategies for thriving in the months ahead.

If you missed the live event, we have you covered. Check out an on-demand edition below.

The Age of Omni-Channel Talent Acquisition Is Here

Uncategorized by Christopher J. Dwyer on 03/13/2023

Ardent Partners and the Future of Work Exchange have written extensively about the shifts happening in the greater world of work and talent. One such transformation, omni-channel talent acquisition, revolves around the concept of enterprises are enabled with a variety of candidate sources that can be converged to drive real-time skills alignment, on-demand hiring, and enhanced visibility into deeper attributes of candidates. While traditional staffing suppliers are still a critical piece of the contingent workforce, the “omni-channel experience” represents a new era in which enterprises can expand their talent searches through the advent of innovation, direct sourcing automation, new candidate channels, and next-generation and AI-fueled technology.

Just a couple of weeks ago, the Exchange hosted an exclusive webcast focused on the evolution of the omni-channel talent acquisition experience and its expected impact in 2023 and beyond. If you happened to miss the live event, check out an on-demand edition of the webinar below.

Key Providers for 2022: GreenLight.ai

Solution Providers Technology and Innovation by Christopher J. Dwyer on 11/09/2022

The Background:

Ardent Partners and Future of Work Exchange research has found that the utilization of digital staffing, talent marketplaces, and alternative talent channels has increased by nearly 800% over the past five years, a surefire representation of how the “omni-channel talent experience” has revolutionized the way businesses find, engage, and source their external talent.

While the overall penetration of talent acquisition via these channels has experienced a stratospheric rise, the flip side to this level of innovation is that businesses still require robust onboarding, payroll, and compliance automation to ensure that the extended workforce delivers on its true value without the threat of labor risks.

Enter GreenLight.ai.

Why They Were Selected:

Payrolling, compliance and risk mitigation, and onboarding technology is not a new concept within the world of contingent workforce management. However, as businesses began to scale their extended talent programs in the wake of a pandemic, disruption via market events, and other activity that has been transforming the modern enterprise over the past few years, there has been an enhanced need for innovative platforms that technologically “align” with the digital staffing, direct sourcing, and talent marketplace solutions for maximum compliance and visibility.

GreenLight.ai has revolutionized the ways that VMS, direct sourcing, ATS, and digital staffing platforms deliver a real omni-channel experience while also providing a central “system of truth” that can be relied upon as the utilization of freelance talent continues to grow in the wake of a looming economic recession and continued ramifications from both the COVID-19 pandemic and unrest across the globe.

In Their Own Words:

GreenLight.ai is the first contractor payroll and compliance provider designed for the Future of Work, used by some of the world’s leading enterprises and most disruptive talent technologies to easily onboard and pay their extended workforce. With an API-first strategy, GreenLight seamlessly integrates with VMS, ATS, and Direct Sourcing programs, while providing embedded connections for benefits, insurance, and background checks.

GreenLight focuses on a positive user experience, speed, visibility, and ease of integration that provides protection and indemnification options while removing the complexity of determining worker classification. Designed in conjunction with leading labor lawyers and tax experts, GreenLight’s platform has been dubbed ‘the world’s most intelligent classification engine’ and has compliance in its DNA. GreenLight also serves as the Employer or Agent of Record in over 120 countries, with intuitive and AI-driven processes that have workers onboarded in minutes.

Uniquely, GreenLight’s platform highlights the importance of focusing on the needs of the contractors, providing tools and benefits that enable them to thrive as independent workers – while ensuring our clients attract and retain the best freelance talent. It’s why the best digital staffing platforms private label our technology, and the reason GreenLight is the partner of choice for socially-conscious, forward-thinking contingent workforce programs.

The Outlook:

The adoption of digital staffing platforms and related solutions (particularly direct sourcing and talent marketplaces) has created a vacuum in which business leaders must delicately balance the need for top-tier talent with the necessary rigor to maintain compliance and mitigate misclassification risks. GreenLight.ai has been, for years, known as the one of the most powerful and intuitive solutions for offering just that…with an added “Future of Work touch” that separates its technology from the rest of the pack.

GreenLight.ai’s innovative range of offerings has proven to transform the way both businesses themselves and their core omni-channel talent platforms optimize the hiring, usage, and candidate experience of freelance talent. As Future of Work-era accelerants continue to shift the dynamics in the world of extended workforce management, GreenLight.ai will continue its long track record of providing Best-in-Class automation, integration, speed, visibility, and end-to-end protection against misclassification risks.

Key Providers for 2022: Prosperix

Solution Providers Technology and Innovation by Christopher J. Dwyer on 10/18/2022

The Background:

The world of talent and work is on an upward trajectory, with a vast majority of businesses actively anticipating the adoption of revolutionary strategies, platforms, and solutions to truly optimize the way they get work done. According to Ardent Partners and Future of Work Exchange research, not only do 72% of enterprises expect to implement a “total talent acquisition” strategy before 2024, but 76% of businesses also anticipate extending HR- and talent-acquisition-like competencies and experiences into their extended workforce management programs within the next 18 months.

What does this mean? Enterprises across the globe crave innovation from their workforce management technology and services, essentially requiring an extra edge of progressive functionality that can transform contingent workforce programs into initiatives that resemble the Future of Work in terms of candidate experience, hiring manager experience, direct sourcing, talent intelligence, etc. In essence, what the business arena needs now is automation that enables agility, scalability, and flexibility.

Enter Prosperix.

Why They Were Selected:

During its near-decade run as Crowdstaffing, the solution now known as Prosperix revolutionized the technological concepts behind digital staffing, direct sourcing, and workforce management. Under the Prosperix brand, the company is doing the same with the Future of Work. Prosperix is known for its innovative VMS Network approach to Vendor Management System (VMS) technology and dedication to enhancing both the candidate and hiring manager experiences.

Prosperix’s unique approach to the talent acquisition and workforce management technology market is further enhanced by the arrival of its new, bundled service offering, Prosperix Xponential. The idyllic blend of tactical and strategic elements of Xponential provide businesses with the necessary power to manage all facets of today’s dynamic workforce, from talent engagement and the candidate experience to managed services, payrolling, and access to the solution’s deep network of candidates and suppliers.

In Their Own Words:

Prosperix is accelerating innovation in hiring and workforce management, enabling every business to build an extraordinary workforce. Our end-to-end software incorporates network effects, automates processes, and simplifies human interactions, while delivering actionable insights and improved outcomes. With our best-in-class solutions, we fuel our client’s biggest dreams by elevating human, workforce, and business prosperity.

Prosperix’s innovations, including the industry’s first (and patent-pending) VMS network and the newest addition, Prosperix Xponential, are garnering attention and giving clients the ability to achieve exponential scalability, agility, resilience, and business outcomes. We serve clients from a wide range of industries such as financial services, insurance, technology, entertainment, and utilities. They engage tens of thousands of contingent workers in professional and non-professional roles including IT, marketing, sales, finance, HR, customer support, manufacturing, and healthcare technology.

Founded in 2012 in Silicon Valley by CEO Sunil Bagai, our company has evolved into one of the industry’s leading technology providers, but with a significant difference – we focus on the combination of technology and people to build a prosperous ecosystem. By balancing the needs of businesses, suppliers, and workers, we help every client establish and maintain a high-quality workforce that meets current and future hiring needs. Visit www.prosperix.com for more information.

The Outlook:

When the company announced its rebrand last year, the main focus was on the “prosperity” of workers and the businesses that employed them. The innovative approach was certainly a progressive marker of where the world of work was heading, as two-plus years removed from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, enterprises find themselves requiring fresh ways of attracting, engaging, and managing talent from various sources, whilst realizing that a talent acquisition and HR focus was the ideal means in leveraging today’s evolving workforce to truly thrive during challenging times.

Prosperix’s VMS Network is a Best-in-Class platform that effectively serves as an agile convergence of digital staffing technology and next-generation VMS functionality. The amalgamation of direct sourcing, candidate experience management, end-to-end contingent workforce management, and digital staffing, combined with the newly-bundled Xponential offering, position Prosperix as a powerful platform that represents the very best of Future of Work-era technology.

Upwork’s Work Without Limits: HR Builds Bridges Across the Organization

Events Solution Providers by Christopher J. Dwyer on 10/14/2022

Upwork, a global talent and work platform, recently held its Work Without Limits summit as an in-person and streaming event in Chicago The main stage was filled with customer and enterprise presenters, including Upwork’s Tony Buffum, vice president of HR Client Strategy, who served as moderator for the panel titled, “HR: Building Bridges Across the Organization.” Joining Buffum to discuss how HR leaders are earning trust, building awareness, and gaining alignment with key business partners to drive business results, was a panel that included:

Zoë Harte, Chief People Officer at Upwork.
David Harris, SVP of HR for PepsiCo.
Sarah Harse, Global Category Leader for HR Services and Professional Education, Johnson & Johnson.

The panel discussion covered a variety of topics. However, a central theme was HR’s cross-functional collaboration in executing the enterprise’s talent strategy. This article explores several areas around that theme. While HR is looked upon by the enterprise to drive talent and other critical initiatives, it cannot do this alone. There must be a partnership across the entire business with other functions like procurement, finance, legal, marketing, engineering, and the like.

Responsibility Lies With Everyone

When it comes to the role of sourcing and identifying talent, who is ultimately responsible? This was the opening question that Buffum posed to the panel. Harte believes everybody is responsible for bringing exceptional talent to drive the business initiatives that are the priorities for the organization. “HR has a powerful role in that. And so do the people managers and so does procurement. We all must do it together to be successful,” she said.

Responding with a procurement perspective, Harse says in the past the function took the upfront role of sourcing, finding the channel, putting it in place, and ensuring it operated. However, that’s not enough anymore.

“Just having the channel available is not enough to really solve the challenges that are ahead for our people leaders. The more we can do to partner with our HR counterparts, our finance counterparts, or our legal counterparts to connect those dots and really think about each of us having a unique role to play — with the hiring manager at the center helping to navigate all these different channels we have available — is really critical,” Harse said.

*The audience at Upwork’s Work Without Limits event listens in to insights regarding the evolving world of work and talent. (Photo credit: Upwork)*

Communication Is the Cornerstone

Because several business units contribute to the identification of talent sources, cross-functional collaboration is imperative. Harris described this process at PepsiCo, which included partnerships with finance (always a major role within large companies), procurement (to ensure all the contracts and partnerships are in place), and the internal talent acquisition team (securing the available people when and where they’re needed).

Of course, such collaboration couldn’t occur without effective communication. What projects are underway and the associated strategies? What are the different metrics or objectives among the functional lines? Harte says each individual team may be working toward different metrics. However, the role of the leader is to take a step back and look at the overall objectives they’re working toward. Knowing the business mission enables everyone to work together.

“It’s then easier to see how you can merge your objectives and key results together to ensure you’re making good compromises,” said Harse. “Communicate and really have a conversation about that so people understand the give and take of everyone involved. You’ll be able to find alignment and come to some level of agreement.”

Commit to Early Engagement

However, even the best-laid plans and communication can pose challenges. Harse spoke about her own experiences in procurement working through problem areas cross functionally and where opportunities exist to work toward a better goal. She said a common pitfall is the last-minute rush that can occur when a project is tossed over the wall to another function. Because both functions have not been on that journey together, there’s a lack of understanding around the purpose of the project and the work that’s been put into it.

For the individual or team suddenly holding the project, there’s a lack of alignment in terms of priority regardless of the urgency involved. Harse said much of the issue can be resolved with better early collaboration during the ideation phase.

“We have a number of subject matter experts across all our large organizations who can bring significant value to the table. Procurement shouldn’t be viewed at the table as simply the purchasing or supply chain person, but rather the beneficiary of these strategies as well,” said Harse.

She adds that the greatest learning coming into a new role supporting HR is that everyone can identify with the need for talent access. All are people leaders who understand the challenge of filling the seats to get the work done.

“It’s easy to get people on board with that message if you bring them in early and start to engage with legal and finance counterparts at the beginning of the journey to bring down some of those barriers that inevitably come up. This is crucial for those unique relationships we want to build to really be successful,” Harse explains.

Key Providers for 2022: Toptal

Solution Providers Technology and Innovation by Christopher J. Dwyer on 10/07/2022

The Background:

One of the key attributes of the Future of Work movement revolves around the concept of “talent evolution.” Businesses across the globe have realized that, in a world that requires agility to be truly competitive, they require real-time access to top-tier talent and skillsets. Ardent Partners and Future of Work Exchange research has routinely discovered that the utilization of alternative talent channels, particularly digital staffing and talent marketplaces, have experienced upwards of 10x adoption over the past several years.

Why such an extreme uptick in utilization? The answer is quite simple: in order for enterprises to tap into a global market of Best-in-Class talent without the restrictions of archaic talent acquisition capabilities, they need to tap into solutions that offer on-demand talent that reinforces the Future of Work-led world we live in…especially attributes such as remote work.

Enter Toptal.

Why They Were Selected:

Ardent Partners and Future of Work Exchange research has found that nearly 70% of executives leaders anticipated increasing their reliance on talent marketplaces and digital staffing platforms over the next two years, an astounding fact that reflects the dynamic benefits of such models. For over 12 years, Toptal has been a market leader in the digital staffing space, owed to its top-tier network of skillsets and expertise, as well as an on-demand foundation that allows business users to scale their workforce remotely in near-real-time fashion.

Toptal’s Enterprise offering is a services-oriented solution that enables a wide range of agile talent acquisition models. Toptal is well-known for leveraging its deep talent marketplace, talent community, and expanded freelancer network to enable true workforce agility and flexibility in its client base. And, what sets this solution apart from others in the industry is its ability to offer its clients the ability to build a fully-scalable team of distributed talent.

In Their Own Words:

Toptal is an international network of highly skilled freelancers in technology, design, and business that enables companies to innovate, meet business challenges and scale their teams, on demand. The company serves thousands of clients from hyper-growth start-ups to the Fortune 500, connecting them with top software engineers, product and project managers, designers, and finance experts from more than 100 countries. Founded in 2010 by CEO Taso Du Val, Toptal has the world’s largest fully remote workforce. Toptal is also regularly recognized as one of the world’s top companies hiring for work-from-anywhere jobs.

The Outlook:

Toptal continues to be a pioneer in the talent marketplace industry; as such, their years-long commitment to remote work was an idyllic means of combating the many challenges during the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a trailblazer in assisting business leaders and hiring managers across the world with building and developing fully-scalable teams of top-tier, remote talent, Toptal has positioned itself as a continued market leader in the digital and on-demand staffing realm.

Toptal’s long track record of success in delivering on-demand, top-shelf talent and expertise to clients across the world position the solution as an ideal platform in a world driven by Future of Work accelerants.

The Role of Talent Marketplaces in the Future of Work

Talent by Christopher J. Dwyer on 03/15/2022

Ardent Partners and Future of Work Exchange research finds that nearly 80% of leading organizations are currently leveraging digital staffing channels and talent marketplaces to fuel their talent acquisition strategies. And in today’s hyper-competitive, Great Resignation-led labor market, enterprises require on-demand solutions that not only align with their talent-based needs, but also support greater extended workforce management processes, operations, and programs.

Last month, the Future of Work Exchange partnered with Bluecrew for an exclusive webcast focused on the role and impact of talent marketplaces and digital staffing within the Future of Work movement. If you missed the event, now’s your chance to check it out: