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Most freelance engagements start the same way: there’s a gap, a deadline, and a quick search for someone who can help. But what if that approach is exactly the problem? In this episode, we’re joined by Matthew Knight, an award-winning independent strategist and Chief Freelance Officer at The Independency Co., and we unpack why reactive hiring...
The way we work is changing faster than most companies realize. What if your biggest hiring mistake isn’t who you hire, but how you think about hiring altogether. In the latest episode of The Independent Workforce Podcast, Przemek Glosny, CEO of Useme, shares how he helps 50,000+ companies, including IKEA, Samsung and HBO, access...
For decades, companies relied on a simple model to access talent: hire employees and build internal teams. But today’s talent markets are changing. Workforce strategist Ray Culver shares why more companies are beginning to rethink how they build teams and why freelancers and independent experts are becoming an increasingly important part of the...
For many large organizations, freelancers are already part of everyday operations, just not always by design. External experts are brought in to solve urgent problems, accelerate innovation, or fill critical skill gaps. Yet behind the scenes, billions are often spent each year on external workforce solutions without a clear strategy, ownership, or...
Freelancing is evolving fast. Between 2023 and 2025, the overall freelance market slowed by over 20%, but demand for specialised roles soared, with some categories growing by more than 270%. In 2026, freelancers with the right skills can still secure high-paying, future-proof projects — if they know where to look. Companies increasingly hire...
For decades, large organizations believed that competitive advantage came from owning talent. But in today’s fast-moving markets, that assumption is quietly breaking down. In Episode 20 of The Independent Workforce, we spoke with Tony Buffum – Head of Enterprise Strategy at Human Cloud – about what’s really happening behind the scenes inside big...
The way we work has changed – quietly, steadily, and now irreversibly. In this episode of The Independent Workforce, we sit down with flexible workforce specialist Jack Spencer, – founder of Freeflexer and co-founder of Club Redundo – to unpack what’s really holding companies back from working successfully with freelancers. From missing ownership...
What’s really stopping enterprises from working with freelancers? Is it trust, process, or simply… vocabulary? In a recent episode of The Independent Workforce, we sat down with Rich Wilson, CEO and Co-Founder of Gigged.AI, to talk about the past, present, and future of freelance collaboration — especially inside enterprise environments...
What happens when someone spends over two decades living, breathing, and shaping the freelance economy, long before it became cool? In this episode of The Independent Workforce, we sat down with Robert Vlach, freelancing entrepreneur, consultant to top professionals, author of The Freelance Way, and founder of two of the largest freelance...
There’s a moment in some conversations where everything gets uncomfortably simple. Not simplistic. Not motivational-poster simple. But truth simple. That happened when John looked at the future of work—freelancers, contractors, fractional experts, AI, remote collaboration—and framed it in a way that left no room for corporate denial: “If companies...