How AI’s New Power Brokers Are Reshaping Your Industry — And Why Companies Paying Them More Than VPs Are Buying the Future The job posting that redefined Silicon Valley compensation in April 2023: $335,000 base salary for a “prompt engineer.” Not a CEO. Not a CTO. A role that had been invented just months beforeRead more
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Here’s a number that should make every CEO pause: 57.3 million Americans now work independently, with 4.7 million earning six-figure incomes. That’s not the gig economy your HR team thinks they understand. We’re talking about a fundamental shift where 36% of the entire U.S. workforce has chosen independence over traditional employment. Fractional executives sit atRead more
Here’s a statistic that should reshape every CEO’s talent strategy: 1.57 billion people worldwide now work independently, representing nearly half the global workforce. In the United States, 76.4 million professionals freelanced in 2024, while Europe’s freelance population reached 6 million digital professionals across France, Germany, Spain, and beyond. This represents a worldwide transformation where theRead more
No doubt you’ve heard the laments. People don’t want to work. Employers can’t fill jobs. Businesses are closing early because they’re short-staffed. Even if you haven’t heard the grumbling firsthand, you’ve likely seen headlines like, “Staff Quit” Sign Posted on Family Dollar Store as Employees Walk Out. Or, you might have noticed the “Help Wanted”Read more
This past January, CNN predicted that mental health would be one of the biggest issues of 2021. As we near the end of another unprecedented year, we can all agree that their predictions have proven to be correct. This shouldn’t come as a surprise after months of pandemic stress, natural disasters, political upheavals, and countlessRead more
In our last blog post, we discussed the phenomenon now known as, The Great Resignation. As a quick refresher, The Great Resignation describes the mass exodus of employees from the labor market that has occurred in response to the global coronavirus pandemic. In April of 2021, the U.S. began to see a record number ofRead more
Over the past 20 months, the Covid-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented disruption in the global economy. The toll has been felt across all industries and in businesses of all sizes. As organizations attempt to resume some semblance of normalcy, one of the biggest challenges they face is historically high levels of employee attrition. ThisRead more
The pandemic taught us many important lessons in business, and some of these will remain long after COVID-19. One of the main ones? The importance of specific skills and expertise, especially with new and emerging technologies. During the pandemic, companies couldn’t get their hands on technology nor find people who knew how to use itRead more