Look around. The way work gets done is changing. Work is being reduced into smaller pieces, altering the practice both for organisations that buy work and for professionals delivering work for pay.
Fundamental societal changes, unprecedented economic uncertainty and global megatrends are changing the way employment works and how people connect with work towards greater dynamism. A growing shift has started where organisations are less compelled to own resources, but place more value on access to networks and talent pools, utilising independent services and external knowledge transfer on an as-needed basis.
The evolving workforce is a mixture of full-time employees, contractors, freelancers, and – increasingly – people with no formal ties to your organisation at all, the open source talent or crowdsourcing model. This trend will ultimately rewrite what the term workforce actually means.