Hiring independent contractors directly is becoming a great way for companies to add just-in-time skill sets to their workforces. However, this increasingly popular solution also creates a significant administrative burden and can expose companies to many legal risks if the employer-employee relationship is not clearly defined for each contractor. The...
“Contract employee” is another way of describing “work portfolio,” a term coined by Irish author and philosopher Charles Handy in his 1989 book The Age of Unreason. Envisioning a new work structure, Handy contended that many professionals were increasingly likely to have not one career with one or two organizations...
The Internet made the business world go all weird, in ways that nobody expected. Probably the weirdest thing that happened was the transformation of product selling into consultative selling. It totally blindsided the conventional wisdom of the business pundits and made all of them look like fools. ...