logo
episode-header-image
Nov 2020
24m 16s

Why Companies and Skilled Workers Are Tu...

Harvard Business Review
About this episode
Joseph Fuller, professor at Harvard Business School, and Allison Bailey, senior partner at Boston Consulting Group, say that the Covid-19 pandemic is only accelerating a recent trend of companies turning to digital talent platforms for highly skilled workers. The need for agility and specialized skills has more firms seeking help with projects. Meanwhile, mo ... Show More
Up next
Jan 2020
How to Capture All the Advantages of Open Innovation
23m 57s
Jan 2020
Revisiting “Jobs To Be Done” with Clayton Christensen
25m 46s
Nov 20
Future of Business: Walmart’s CEO on AI, Jobs, and Managing Rapid Change
In uncertain times, leaders at all levels can learn from what the world's best CEOs are doing to protect themselves and forge a path ahead. In this Future of Business series, IdeaCast hosts Alison Beard and Adi Ignatius sat down with four leading CEOs who manage across different ... Show More
31m 12s
Recommended Episodes
Feb 2021
Factoring high-skills freelancers into the enterprise equation
Digital platforms for highly skilled freelancers are set to broker more strategic engagements for businesses needing extra capacity and flexibility. HBS and Managing the Future of Work’s Joe Fuller and Boston Consulting Group’s Allison Bailey, co-authors of the report Building th ... Show More
32m 46s
Sep 2021
Workforce Inside: The contingent workforce
The pandemic has increased the number of employees who want more flexibility in where and when they work—and that’s leading to more people choosing to become gig workers. With the gig economy growing, employers are able to increasingly tap into different types of talent to access ... Show More
16m 12s
Nov 2021
Forward Thinking on making labor markets work smarter—for people and companies—with Beth Cobert and Byron Auguste
In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, Michael Chui talks to Byron Auguste and Beth Cobert whose professional life is dedicated to fostering a more skills-based labor market. Their focus is on the United States, but their diagnostic can just ... Show More
44m 34s
Mar 2022
Why are so many people joining the freelance economy?
Kate Davis talks with Hayden Brown about why so many workers are freelancing and how this trend will only continue to grow. Hayden is president and CEO of Upwork, a work marketplace that connects businesses with highly-skilled talent. 
38m 48s
Sep 2020
Utmost | Mobilizing the Talent Continuum
The nature of work today is increasingly dynamic, distributed, flexible, and digital-first. Relying on the extended workforce is more than a short-term, stop-gap solution: businesses are finding this population to be an efficient, viable source of talent instrumental to their cor ... Show More
35m 23s
Aug 2022
FROM FRESHWORKS AND FAST CO. WORKS: What is the future of the employee experience?
Every company’s success is tied to its talent - recruiting and retaining the employees needed to deliver high-level customer experiences that support the bottom line. Yet rapid transformation has disrupted many things that organizations used to do to maintain great company cultur ... Show More
26m 42s
Sep 2020
HR Works 124: Financial Instability Requires More Than Words from Employers
The pandemic has put a lot of strain on everyday Americans in a host of ways from job losses, riskier work for the same or reduced pay, to financial hardship. You may also listen here: https://bit.ly/2ZPucna Today’s guest believes that employers have a duty to be courageous about ... Show More
49m 14s
Jun 2018
Ep 2: What smart employers are doing to prevent degree inflation
HBS professor Joe Fuller’s latest research Dismissed by Degrees shows that when companies start asking for a four-year college degree for jobs that previously did not require one, they not only reduce opportunities for workers but also restrict their ability to attract talent. Wh ... Show More
26m 38s
Jul 2023
HR Works Podcast 246: Are 2023 Grads Your Newest Talent Advantage?
Guest: Alexandra Levit, Founder and CEO of Inspiration at Work What unique skills and competitive advantages are recent 2023 graduates bringing into this highly-competitive talent marketplace? For the HR teams that are hiring these newest members of the workforce, what skills tra ... Show More
48m 6s
Jul 2023
HR Works Podcast 247: Flexibility Matters! Making Your Employee Benefits More Beneficial
Guest: Sony Jean-Michel Thornton, Sr. HR Business Partner at Columbia University Irving Medical Center When it comes to employee benefits, what does “flexibility” mean to workers and their employers in 2023? How can HR leaders and organizations know if flexible benefits, such as ... Show More
33m 17s