Archived Blog Posts
Buyers Beware: You Can’t Avoid ACA Costs
October 8, 2013Who’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, 2013I 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, 2013September 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, 2013One 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, 2013A 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, 2013Late 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, 2013Leading 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, 2013Earthquakes 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, 2013Welcome 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, 2013For 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