Wether you call them contingent workers, freelancers, 1099 workers, or anything else, it appears that organizations around the world are thinking of ways to tap into this new workforce. While the size of this group is still not known (reports vary quite a bit) all of the business leaders I have been speaking with are thinking of ways to spend more money and resources investing in this area. In fact, I have yet to meet a business leader at an organization that isn’t thinking of the freelancer economy and what it means to their respective organization. Right now there are perhaps more questions about the freelancer than there are answers. How can companies work with freelancers at scale? What impact will government rules and regulations have? How is this new breed of worker actually classified? What does this mean for full-time employment? How large is the freelancer economy? These are just a few of the things that I hear business leaders thinking about.

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