BOSTON, April 29, 2014 -- OnForce, a leader in technology-enabled workforce
management, today released the whitepaper, "Task To Talent (T2T): How Technology is Driving a New
Contingent Work Arrangement Paradigm." The whitepaper
discusses a new type of workforce arrangement through which enterprises engage
independent workers to perform short-term, specific, task-focused assignments.
The whitepaper also offers an overview of some of the new Task-to-Talent
technology platforms.
Recent advances in
technologies, combined with enterprises growing demand to find and manage
independent contractors for short-term assignments lasting for a matter of
hours (or even minutes or seconds), are driving the emergence of a new
Task-to-Talent workforce arrangement paradigm. While traditional staffing
technology platforms such as vendor management systems (VMS) process large volumes
of contingent workforce transactions and continue to evolve, they were not
designed to support work arrangements for more specialized T2T "short
assignments," "tasks," or "microtasks."
"The Task-to-Talent
work arrangement paradigm is still at an early stage of development, but it is
happening and will become an increasingly common feature and institution in our
expanding digital economy," said Andrew Karpie, chief analyst of The
Research Platform and author of the whitepaper. "While organizations have
been engaging contractors for highly specific, very short-term assignments for
some time, they've almost always done so using limiting, inefficient, ad hoc
management processes that are neither automated nor transparent and may also
pose compliance risks. Task-to-Talent technology platforms are now starting to
enable organizations to achieve higher levels of workforce efficiency, agility
and performance by leveraging, expanding, and truly 'managing' Task-to-Talent
forms of work."
"Task To Talent (T2T): How Technology is Driving a New
Contingent Work Arrangement Paradigm," offers an analysis
of the economic and technological factors that led to the emergence of T2T
workforce arrangements, and an overview and comparison of Task-to-Talent
technology vendors including oDesk/Elance, TaskRabbit, Crowdflower and OnForce.
The whitepaper outlines a number of factors and issues, including:
- The differences between the Personnel Staffing and Task-to-Talent workforce arrangement paradigms;
- How the co-evolution of technology and work arrangement paradigms resulted in the emergence of Task-to-Talent workforce arrangements; and
- Some of the basic differences among a range of Task-to-Talent technology platforms that are commercially available today.
Having spent the last
decade working with thousands of the world's top enterprises including Apple,
AT &T and Xerox in managing, engaging and paying independent contractors,
we've seen first-hand the Task-to-Talent workforce arrangement paradigm take
off in the IT space," said OnForce CEO Peter Cannone. "More recently
we've seen the same Task-to-Talent need arise across industries as enterprises
seek more efficient ways to manage the large private networks of freelancers
they've cultivated to complete these short-term, specialized assignments.
In anticipation of the
growing enterprise need across industries to manage Task-to-Talent engagements,
OnForce recently announced OnForce Converge, a software platform that can be
adopted within any company's contingent workforce program and enable the
aggregation and management of a company's existing and future
"short-assignment" contingent workforce. OnForce Converge is designed
to work in conjunction with current workforce management solutions including
managed solution providers (MSP) and vendor management systems, allowing
organizations to expand their workforce management capabilities to incorporate
contingent workers (independent contractors, freelancers, etc.) who perform
smaller, shorter, specialized projects and tasks.
The whitepaper,
"Task To Talent (T2T): How Technology is Driving a New Contingent Work
Arrangement Paradigm," is available for download here. To learn more about OnForce Converge,
please visit http://www.onforce.com/converge.
About OnForce
OnForce, a leader in
SaaS technology-enabled workforce solutions, empowers companies of all sizes in
all industries to gain a competitive edge in how work gets done. Its business
model allows customers to rapidly grow their businesses, lower service costs,
extend skill-sets, and generate new streams of revenue. For additional
information, please visit www.onforce.com and follow us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
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