Managing External Contributors in Workforce Ecosystems

Cisco’s approach demonstrates how other organizations can think about orchestrating a workforce ecosystem, starting with contingent workers.

Novartis’s workforce includes 110,000 employees and 50,000 contractors and temporary workers. Cisco has 83,000 full-time employees and 50,000-plus contingent workers of various types.1 Both companies rely substantially on a workforce ecosystem that includes many kinds of external contributors, including tens of thousands of individual contractors, to achieve their business outcomes. They are not alone.

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