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Buyers Beware: You Can’t Avoid ACA Costs

October 8, 2013 - from Subadhra Sriram's Blog

Who’s on the hook for bearing the additional costs of healthcare reform? Buyers and suppliers see the ACA price saga unfolding quite differently.

Buyers of staffing services assert... More


Our 2013 Staffing Heroes

October 1, 2013 - from Subadhra Sriram's Blog

I would like to draw your attention to the Staffing 100 2013 list.

Our annual list of industry dynamos is a guide to those who shape the growing $134 billion staffing industry. They... More


The March on the Enterprise Continues: oDesk Advances

September 30, 2013 - from

September has been a notable month for online staffing platforms pivoting their focus beyond SMBs and toward enterprise users of contingent workforce. MBO Partners and Work Market announced... More


Elance Moves Closer to the Enterprise with Private Talent Cloud (Continues to Define Itself as a Segment Innovator)

September 24, 2013 - from

One of the leading online staffing companies, Elance, has announced the introduction of its Private Talent Cloud™ offering targeted to enterprises. This announcement comes right on... More


Staffing Industry Alive and Kicking

September 23, 2013 - from Subadhra Sriram's Blog

A decade ago, the U.S. staffing industry was projected to boom pretty much without end. Fantastic long-term growth was projected and an ever increasing share of U.S. employment was... More


Our Affair with Online Staffing

September 18, 2013 - from Subadhra Sriram's Blog

Late last year, Staffing Industry Analysts was accused of having a crush on the online staffing segment. But 10 months have since elapsed, and I have to say that more and... More


Is Elance Pointing the Way to A New Labor Market Function for the Staffing Industry?

September 18, 2013 - from

Leading Online Staffing player, Elance, announced a major move that should make us all think a little bit harder about Online Staffing platforms (and their potential). By partnering... More


What Lurks Beneath? A Tectonic Shift in the Work Arrangement Landscape?

September 11, 2013 - from

Earthquakes occur when sufficient stress has built up along fault lines, such that the earth moves all of a sudden, and what’s on the surface is often drastically altered. Things... More


Everyone’s Talking Contingent

September 10, 2013 - from Subadhra Sriram's Blog

Welcome to the 2013 CW Solutions Forum and CWS Summit, our biggest ever. Eight years after the first conference, the Summit has become the networking event for CW professionals. So... More


The Two Sides of MBO Partners: Things May Not Always Be What They Seem

August 30, 2013 - from

For a variety of reasons this past year, I have begun to look differently at MBO Partners.

Part of the reason is that I tend to be curious about “contingent workforce intermediation... More