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PODCAST: Leveraging the rise of the contingent workforce

Contingent workforce spend is often seen as a risky, cost-based category. 

But is procurement’s thinking with the category too small, holding it back from reaching the next level? 

While lowering cost and risk is important, there is a whole range of strategic benefits available to companies that take a broader approach to contingent workforce. 

A ‘contingent workforce’ describes workers engaged by companies on a non-permanent basis such as freelancers, independent professionals, contractors or consultants. The trend is spreading. 

Listen to this Art of Procurement Podcast episode where Philip Ideson is joined by Morten Petersen, the co-founder and CEO of Worksome, as well as James Nicholls, Worksome’s Head of Enterprise, about contingent workforce trends and best practices.

You will hear about: 

  • how contingent workforce is changing
  • procurement’s role in helping organizations think about talent more broadly
  • how contingent workforce spend can deliver a lot of value and innovation.

Listen to the Art of Procurement Podcast.