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Podcast: HBR On Strategy
Episode: The Strategic Advantage of Tapping Freelancers
Description: 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. Â
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 a...