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What if your company’s biggest bottleneck isn’t a shortage of people, but a shortage of perspective?  In the latest episode of The Independent Workforce Podcast, Total Rewards strategist Anna Orzechowska (20+ years of experience) makes a compelling case for rethinking how work actually gets done. Freelancers, she argues...

There’s a quiet shift happening in how companies build teams, and it’s easy to miss if you’re not looking for it. In our latest episode of The Independent Workforce Podcast, Jamie Read, founder of BriteBrich Collective, shares why some of the smartest companies are rethinking that model entirely.  Freelancers are no longer...

The way we work has already changed, but most companies are still operating as if nothing has really happened.  In the latest episode of The Independent Workforce Podcast, global workforce strategist Jeff Nugent shares why the real shift isn’t about remote work or freelancing. It’s about rethinking how we measure value, manage...

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 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...