Jeff Mike - Flextrack

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02 Aug Flextrack and Brightfield – Real-Time Market Data and the Extended Workforce

Posted at 19:32h in new by Jeff Mike

Enterprise people strategies are increasingly reliant on the extended workforce to ensure access to talent in a challenging market. According to recent estimates, the non-employee workforce accounts for approximately 35% to 47% of the average company’s total workforce in America.[1]’[2] In addition, about 90% of...

28 Jul Direct Sourcing: Gateway to a Unified Workforce Strategy

Posted at 16:01h in new by Jeff Mike

Whether leading a team or teaching graduate courses, I always offer two points of advice to emerging HR leaders: Go make friends with Finance. Today. Right now. And then do the same with IT. It is simply impossible to deliver compelling employee experiences and help...

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29 Jun Dispatch From Salesforce World Tour NYC: Relationship Management Transforms the Extended Workforce Experience

Posted at 14:52h in new by Jeff Mike

Employee experience is coming to the extended workforce. In January, I joined Flextrack, an extended workforce solution, to help enterprising organizations cultivate their non-employee workforces with an amazing team of experts and a platform as a service (Paas) architecture built on Salesforce. Last week, the Salesforce World...

Jeff Mike at the 2022 SHRM Annual Conference & Expo

17 Jun Dispatch from the SHRM 2022 Annual Conference & Expo: A Call for HR Leadership and Innovation

Posted at 00:00h in new by Jeff Mike

It was a real thrill to join over 15,000 HR professionals this year in New Orleans, and more online, at the 2022 SHRM Annual Conference & Expo. While the hybrid format of the conference mirrors the increasingly permanent hybrid workplace we are all adjusting to,...

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31 May UNLEASH America 2022 – Never Normal, Reinvention and Humanizing Technology

Posted at 14:47h in new by Jeff Mike

It’s late spring 2022, and in-person HR and technology conferences are back in a big way. Over two years of pent-up demand for full interaction with colleagues, networks, solution providers, and industry leaders has channeled into some amazing events, including UNLEASH America held last week...

Side by side visual of Flextrack's Jeff Mike and Bluecrew's CEO, Steve Avalone, as they discuss the extended workforce.

05 May Bluecrew: Humanizing the Extended Workforce With Technology and Data

Posted at 13:57h in new by Jeff Mike

The consumerization of workplace technology over the past decade and the rise of worker power precipitated by the pandemic are driving a permanent shift in the connections between people, work and organizations. Nowhere has this shift been more acute than in HR, and HR has...

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27 Apr Creative Destruction and the “Other” Workforce

Posted at 16:30h in new by Jeff Mike

Creative destruction is an economic concept that describes the perpetual process of innovation and evolution in business markets. It “revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating the new one.” The implication is that outdated beliefs, behaviors, systems and structures...

08 Apr Extended Workforce Ecosystems, HR, and the Future of the Contingent Workforce – A Conversation with Workforce Futurist Terri Gallagher

Posted at 12:18h in new by Jeff Mike

One of the best parts of my role here as Head of Research here at Flextrack is all the great people and organizations I get to speak with as I explore our ecosystem for insights and partners who can help us give the extended workforce...

01 Apr Dispatch from ProcureCon 2022 – In-Person Insights from the Extended Workforce

Posted at 19:15h in new by Jeff Mike

The anticipation had been building for months – my first in-person conference in over two years! The last time I spoke at an event, in March 2020, the world was on the cusp of facing COVID-19. There were no masks or social distancing in the...

04 Mar Halfway There: HR, Platforms and the Extended Workforce

Posted at 14:29h in new by Jeff Mike

The Good News:Human resources (HR) is engaging with the extended workforce to solve skill shortages and achieve C-Level priorities that are driven by pandemic-intensified turnover rates and the greater adoption of flexible, remote and hybrid working arrangements.The Numbers: Recent estimates of the extended workforce, or...