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Jeff Mike at the 2022 SHRM Annual Conference & Expo

17 Jun Dispatch from the SHRM 2022 Annual Conference & Expo: A Call for HR Leadership and Innovation

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It was a real thrill to join over 15,000 HR professionals this year in New Orleans, and more online, at the 2022 SHRM Annual Conference & Expo. While the hybrid format of the conference mirrors the increasingly permanent hybrid workplace we are all adjusting to,...

03 Jun How Can An MSP Leverage New Technology to Better Serve Customers?

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A very long time ago, one of my previous mentors told me that, “technology is all about getting to your bottlenecks faster.” His point was technology is developed to automate a process or interaction. And ultimately, this technology can uncover the gaps in service is or...

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31 May UNLEASH America 2022 – Never Normal, Reinvention and Humanizing Technology

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It’s late spring 2022, and in-person HR and technology conferences are back in a big way. Over two years of pent-up demand for full interaction with colleagues, networks, solution providers, and industry leaders has channeled into some amazing events, including UNLEASH America held last week...

Two young female professionals looking at a screen are discovering ways to optimize their talent strategy with new VMS technology.

19 May Supercharge your talent sourcing: Break down old school thinking and technology to keep up with a challenging market

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An effective talent sourcing strategy needs to be multi-pronged. Hiring teams need to be able to connect with a whole ecosystem of suppliers that have different reaches, aims, markets or specializations—including diverse and underrepresented groups. Businesses need to be able to switch suppliers and add...

Side by side visual of Flextrack's Jeff Mike and Bluecrew's CEO, Steve Avalone, as they discuss the extended workforce.

05 May Bluecrew: Humanizing the Extended Workforce With Technology and Data

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The consumerization of workplace technology over the past decade and the rise of worker power precipitated by the pandemic are driving a permanent shift in the connections between people, work and organizations. Nowhere has this shift been more acute than in HR, and HR has...

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02 May Leveraging VMS Technology to Execute Your Diversity Strategy

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The benefits of a diverse workforce and its impact on a company’s overall performance are clear. McKinsey’s research, for example, shows that organizations within the top quartile for gender or racial and ethnic diversity are 35% more likely to have financial returns above their respective...

A circle of diverse individuals holding hands - Representing creative destruction and the contingent workforce.

27 Apr Creative Destruction and the “Other” Workforce

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Creative destruction is an economic concept that describes the perpetual process of innovation and evolution in business markets. It “revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating the new one.” The implication is that outdated beliefs, behaviors, systems and structures...

08 Apr Extended Workforce Ecosystems, HR, and the Future of the Contingent Workforce – A Conversation with Workforce Futurist Terri Gallagher

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One of the best parts of my role here as Head of Research here at Flextrack is all the great people and organizations I get to speak with as I explore our ecosystem for insights and partners who can help us give the extended workforce...

01 Apr Dispatch from ProcureCon 2022 – In-Person Insights from the Extended Workforce

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The anticipation had been building for months – my first in-person conference in over two years! The last time I spoke at an event, in March 2020, the world was on the cusp of facing COVID-19. There were no masks or social distancing in the...

31 Mar New Criteria for Selecting Extended Workforce Solutions

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Organizations leverage consulting firms and managed service providers (MSPs) to help them select optimal technology for managing their extended workforce and achieving their talent strategy goals. These partners help to formally define an organization’s business needs as well as map out how different systems must...