Benefits of Staff on Demand

Staff on Demand is one of the key attributes of a successful Exponential Organization. The more the modern ExO can outsource, the better. Thanks to the rapidly growing gig economy, implementing company-wide SoD today offers some powerful competitive advantages, including:

• The ability to quickly scale up or downsize according to circumstances

• The capacity to quickly restructure and make lateral moves into new markets by rapidly staffing new operations

• The opportunity to remain technically competitive by maintaining a workforce that is always at the cutting edge of knowledge and training

• Access to the best talent and expertise (which may never join your company otherwise): The smartest people don’t always work for you. Now they can, if only part-time.

• Increased diversity in thinking, from workers who don’t suffer from the same biases, inside-the-box thinking, or operating pattern ruts as permanent employees

• The ability to divide work projects into smaller pieces, then contract freelancers with special expertise in each of those pieces

• Spending less time and money managing employee benefits, health programs, and retirement plans (with the help of a new breed of company that handles all of these services for remote workers)

• For the gig worker: greater control over time and resources, the ability to work at home, a choice of employers, varied work, and—perhaps most important of all—a real chance to pursue one’s own personal MTP.