As these sluggish U.S. hiring numbers indicate, businesses are wary of adding too many employees at once should the economy head south again. Though there are risks to it, utilizing contract talent is an increasingly popular way to engage talent without shouldering the burden of adding new full-time workers.
In an upcoming webcast we have two amazing presenters: Monica Pons of NBC-Universal and Meghan McVeigh of PSEG that will be sharing their organizations’ best practices in the management of their contingent or contract workforces and what they see on the horizon. Sounds good already right? In order to maximize the interactivity of this session we are taking your questions ahead of time and we will be selecting from the cream of this question crop to ask during an expanded Q&A period. This is a huge opportunity to hear from two leading organizations in very different industries on a human capital issue whose time has come.
Want to know how PSEG is leveraging their retirees on a project basis? Want to learn how NBC-Universal staffs up for an Olympic Games? Send your questions straight to me at alan.mellish@hci.org and make sure to register for webcast here so you can hear the answers.
With an increasigly contingent/ contract/ casualised workforce what strategies are in place to ensure the organisation's knowledge base maintained? Given that knowledge is essentially an organisation's lifeblood.