By 2020, half of the talent required by organizations will not actually work for the organization.

Today, freelancers and temps make up nearly 15% of the workforce, and by 2020 it’s expected to be nearly 20%.

Outsourcing is a new, leaner way to start and grow a company with a lot less overhead.

In the future, organizations’ competitive success will hinge on a highly unlikely factor: workers who aren’t employees at all.

Companies follow the talent. As growing numbers of professionals decide that they prefer to work on a temporary basis, organizations are finding [new] ways to work with them.

Time to market can make the difference between failure and success – the extended workforce lets you bring people in who can hit the ground running.

Nearly 40% of executives said they are either ‘barely able’ or ‘unable’ to meet demands for the talent required to run their organizations.

The shift [to the extended workforce] has enabled organizations to achieve two of the most sought-after competitive capabilities: 1) Agility in the face of a highly turbulent business environment, and 2) Access to high performing, highly skilled talent.

There are 53 million Americans (34% of the US workforce) working as freelancers… adding $715 billion annually to economy through freelance work.

Today, freelancers and temps (also known as contingent labor) make up nearly 15% of the workforce, and by 2020, it’s expected to be nearly 20%. 

By bringing in people when they’re needed who can hit the ground running without time-consuming training, your business can get a product or service out in front of the competition.

For businesses –small businesses, especially — it isn’t practical or economical to hire a long-term staff member to fulfill every possible task they may need fulfilled… The collaborative economy is the ideal way of fusing high quality with economic efficiency.

We’re entering a new era of work – project-based, independent, exciting, potentially risky, and rich with opportunities… Workers can pursue more meaningfully independent lives, and businesses can access the exact right skills at the exact time they need them.

Freelancers alone are expected to grow from 7% to 16% of the workforce.

It’s a cultural and social shift on par with the Industrial Revolution… this shift to a more independent workforce has major impacts on how Americans conceive of and organize their lives, their communities, and their economic power.