More Workforce Options

Seamlessly Engage Workers from All Channels for Efficiency and Cost-Effectiveness

A task-based approach opens channels to a variety of workers and paths to get work done, not just a traditional full-time hire. However, it can be daunting for C-suite and other executive leaders to understand how to transform their talent acquisition methods when there are separate and completely different processes depending on the worker category.

The Universal Workforce Model encourages harmonizing siloed workforce channels. With a task-first approach, the tasks can illuminate the type of worker that should be engaged to do the work. The person could be a current or new employee, or perhaps a gig worker, or could be contracted out to an external service provider. You may even see a task as too repetitive to motivate a worker, so that task could be automated, freeing your people to do more inventive work.

Harmonizing Siloed Workforce Channels

Worker and Source Alternatives to FTE

Talent exchanges: Build capability, perspective and relationships by swapping/rotating talent with entities outside your enterprise
Gig workers or freelancers: Access on-demand skills and capabilities when/where needed using external talent platforms
Crowdsourcing: Obtain input, information and ideas from a curated audience internal and external to the organization
Innovation partnerships: Engage start-up organizations and/or academic units for new ideas, commercialization or launching new ventures
Co-ops/internships/apprenticeships: Use students and others who are early in their careers or are making a career transition to take on specific tasks and build a future talent pipeline
Nontraditional talent: Source talent from traditionally under-tapped sources, such as underserved populations, socioeconomic groups and differently abled people
Internal talent marketplace: Offer employees flexible opportunities to take on projects or tasks beyond their jobs to fill unmet needs

Benefits of Harmonizing Workforce Channels

The harmonization of workforce acquisition channels – such as internal, external, permanent, contingent and statement of work (SOW) – means that organizations can access and manage any type of talent through a single point of entry, rather than having separate processes and systems for different categories of workers. This is intended to simplify the process and optimize the outcomes, as well as create a more consistent and inclusive experience for all workers.

Full workforce visibility impacts the health of the entire organization and can have far reaching impacts, including increasing workforce utilization, finding talent gaps and determining best sources.

Workforce Business Partner and Workforce Acquisition Manager
To ensure that all the silos can work in harmony, a workforce business partner will oversee all channels and act as a guide for finding the right source to fit your company’s overall strategy.

A workforce business partner will use your company’s needs to determine how long work should take and how much it should cost, then advise where to get the work done, what type of workers should do the work and where the opportunities are for automation. And as the needs of the business and circumstances change, your business partner will evolve your strategy according to the organization’s unique needs.

As the workforce business partner guides the big-picture needs of the business, the workforce acquisition manager executes the vision. This person oversees all of the hiring for their business area across all channels of workers. This will mean that hiring managers and business leaders will no longer need to decide between an FTE, contingent or consultant as a first step. Instead, all options remain available because they all work with the workforce acquisition manager to source the right talent at the right time and for the right cost.

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Workforce Data for a People-Centric World
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Transforming Workforce Recruitment with Harmonization of Channels
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Workforce Business Partner – Key to Universal Workforce Modal Approach
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