It is no secret that the world of work is changing…it is evolving. The consumerization of business (and the new platforms that have been developed to support this market shift) translates into an opportunity for today’s enterprises to not only tap into a new network of on-demand talent (across a variety of skillsets), but also leverage online talent platforms and outlets as a key and operational piece of their overall workforce management programs. As organizations seek to not just survive in this new world, but flourish, it will be critical to deploy the key talent engagement strategies and solutions that can boost growth, spark innovation, generate new ideas, and address crucial skills gaps across the contemporary business.

Ardent Partners is excited to announce the publication of a new research report, underwritten by Catalant, that builds on the concept of the Future of Work and presents analysis, insights, and guidance on how to thrive in a new world of work by leveraging recent advances in the most significant competitive differentiator an enterprise has: talent.

New World of Work, New World of Talent (click here to download) discusses, at-length, the Future of Work (defined by Ardent Partners as the ultimate optimization of work via the transformation of business processes, operations, and its workforce through digitization, seamless and holistic solutions, and flexible enterprise thinking), and the many concepts behind it, including the evolution of talent and the platforms that are enabling today’s businesses to find, engage, and source external workers in an on-demand manner.

Ardent Partners research has discovered that 40% of the average enterprise’s total workforce is considered temporary, contingent, or non-employee; this factor reinforces the astounding growth of the contingent workforce over the last decade. It also presents a new argument for the new world of work: businesses today depend on flexible, on-demand labor more than ever before. A critical layer of the Future of Work is how companies are engaging agile talent today and how this process will continue to evolve. The “consumerization” of business today has ramifications not only within how work is perform-ed, but who is performing it, as well. Companies are essentially reimagining the talent that is attached to work, choosing to adopt new and flexible methods of talent acquisition.

Online staffing platforms, digital talent outlets, and talent marketplaces represent the veritable “next generation” of talent engagement, enabling organizations with the ability to better align its critical projects and initiatives with freelancers, external workers, and other independent professionals via unique matching algorithms and other key functionality. The New World of Work, New World of Talent research report also highlights the growth of these platforms and marketplaces, and discusses their place in the Future of Work.

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