What’s Driving Post-COVID Hiring – Minimum Age or Minimum Wage?
Without a doubt, the pandemic has turned a lot of the established workforce planning orthodoxy on its head. “Things will never be the same” say pundits as we return to a new normal. Many changes wrought by the rapid onset of the pandemic are likely to remain. Work from home options will likely remain at…
Read Now
What It Means to Work with a Reliable Workforce Management Provider
When it comes to choosing a workforce management provider, there are enough platitudes to go around. Providers will talk to you about their extensive industry experience, their superior customer service, their work ethic and more. Of course, all these things are important and a buyer must do their due diligence in verifying these claims by…
Read Now
INFOGRAPHIC: Five Higher Education Workforce Trends to Watch in 2021
Higher education as an industry has been radically transformed in a number of ways as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. Shifting economic conditions, funding reductions, dramatic drop-offs in enrollment and the rise of disruptive technologies – all occurring at the same time – have changed many of the orthodoxies formerly applied to higher education…
Read Now
Is Customer Service Important to your Workforce Providers?
As the workforce management industry continues to grow, so too does the marketplace for products and services focused on helping organizations manage the workforce. With this expanding universe of providers to choose from, service levels, and specifically customer service, take on an outsized role in deciding which provider to use. Here are some guidelines to…
Read Now
Have you lost control of your contingent workforce management program?
A few years ago, you made the strategic decision to outsource your contingent workforce management program. You did everything right – you sought recommendations to identify potential Managed Services Providers (MSP), you issued a request for proposal (RFP), used a committee to evaluate responses, met with each shortlisted firm to ensure a cultural fit, and…
Read Now
Will talent scarcity halt the growth of the Tech Sector?
In this third installment of our series exploring the current level of business insecurity and the impact it has on workforce plans (part one: Will 2021 Be a Year of Thriving or Surviving for Your Workforce?, part two: Has COVID Changed the Definition of “Agile Workforce”?) we focus on an industry that has experienced a…
Read Now
Juneteenth – More than a Celebration, But a Call to Action for Workplace Equity
Juneteenth is a celebration of the emancipation of slaves following the end of the American Civil War. Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union Army at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. However, many slaves living in remote regions of Texas didn’t get the news. The Texas-based western Army of the Trans-Mississippi…
Read Now
Has COVID Changed the Definition of “Agile Workforce”?
In part one of this series, we explored the ways in which the events of 2020 have led to a high degree of business insecurity and reimagining how work is done. Part one discussed how the pandemic forced a broad reinvention of work resulting in a tech-enabled, “unleashed workforce”, the acceleration of remote connectivity, emerging…
Read Now
Will 2021 Be a Year of Thriving or Surviving for Your Workforce?
Everyone agrees, in the wake of the COVID19 pandemic, there is much cause for a general feeling of insecurity for employers seeking to ramp up operations and fully reopen. This post is the first segment of a 3-part series exploring the current level of business insecurity and the impact if has on workforce plans. The…
Read Now
What is Contractor Compliance?
The use of contract labor by businesses and organizations of all sizes continues to grow by leaps and bounds. Entire app-driven industries have been helping to drive the popularity of contract labor, as has the decentralization of the traditional workplace fueled by COVID and the downsizing of brick and mortar offices. However, as more and…
Read Now