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RETHINKING THE ON-DEMAND WORKFORCE

by Joseph Fuller, Manjari Raman, Allison Bailey, and Nithya Vaduganathan

In this era of chronic skills shortages, rapid automation, and digital transformation, companies are confronting a growing talent problem, one that has the potential to become a strategic bottleneck. How can they find people with the right skills to do the right work at just the right time? The half-life of skills is shrinking fast, and many jobs now come and go in a matter of years. Not only that, but major demographic changes are under way: boomers are aging out of the workforce, and millennials and Gen Z are taking over, bringing with them very different priorities about who should do what work—and where, when, and how it should ...

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