What the New Freelance Economy Means for Your Talent Strategy

The rapid pace of technological change is making a big impact on
hiring. Some organizations are dynamically securing freelance
workers through platform apps like Upwork and Freelancer. Other
companies are investing heavily in work enabled by artificial
intelligence. John Winsor and Jin Paik say these structural changes
call for a reimagining of your talent strategy — one that is open
to flexible, project-based work for talent inside or outside your
organization — and they explain how to go about it. Winsor is the
founder and chair of Open Assembly and an executive-in-residence at
the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard. Paik is a
cofounder and managing partner at the AI consultancy Altruistic and
a visiting research scientist at Harvard Business School. Together,
they wrote the book Open Talent: Leveraging the Global
Workforce to Solve Your Biggest Challenges and the HBR article
"Do You Need an External Talent Cloud?"