The workplace of today comprises mostly of full-time employees. Sure – companies outsource certain tasks and use sites like oDesk and eLance.. But most of the work happens through full-time employees and contractors.
But, it is going to change. This is because of two emerging and irreversible trends – (1) a large portion of US workforce are aging baby boomers and they are going to retire (2) Steady drum beat of globalization will bring more and more international, cheap, labor to the arena.
The companies who thrive will make these emerging trends work in their favor. The way they do it would be to hire a “skeleton” staff of permanent employees. These employees would be super talented and one of their main skills would be managing and coordinating others. Each of these employees would get support from outsourced workers as well as retired / semi-retired professionals acting as subject matter experts.
Overall, it is a win-win arrangement. Outsourced employees keep the costs low. Older workers can use the extra income and get benefits of being mentally engaged. Finally, with US projected to have less working age individuals, companies will still get stuff done because of this unique arrangement.
ParetoCentral, by the way, is helping to connect people with expert professionals. The goal is to make flexible work reality, especially for the aging baby boomer population. We look forward to fulfill our envisioned role in tomorrow’s workplace!
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