OPTION 1: As a traditional employer, you put people to work for your company because you need them now. But then: You’re responsible to them, one way or another, as the company evolves. The cost of everything that goes into maintaining their traditional employee status is high, even spread out over multiple employees. The commitment…
Tag Archive: Business
Decline of Executive Power
Today was huge. I call it the Verizon Event. For a few years Daniel and I have been talking non-stop about changes in traditional employment. We discuss the social and economic drivers behind those changes. But not so much about corporations. I have written about the eventual end of traditional hierarchical organizational structure in modern corporations….
What Cloud Software Says for Hiring People
Cloud computing is a leaner approach, a more agile approach and a greener approach, than installing stuff to hard drives and servers, keeping it updated, secure, and running smoothly. [This post] observes that ”the majority of data center power use comes from non-IT companies running their own data centers less efficiently. ” and cites [google’s own report on how…
Heinz and Boeing on the Employer Pushcar
Heinz is announcing layoffs, plant closings, and price increases in a weak economy with rising ingredient costs. One could argue that the cost of employing people is not really the drain they say it is – not anymore. It’s not employment cost, it’s employer cost . There are lots of alternative ways to put people…
Happiness is IRS form W-2
I got my electronic W-2 from Free Agent Source last week and I’m ready to file my income taxes. Even though I am an independent consultant and project manager, I have all the convenience of filing taxes with form W-2 that traditional employees have. IRS form W-2 is our ticket to legitimacy. Our culture is…
FREE AGENTS
FREE AGENTS: We are interested in equipping you with full benefits (health care, 401K, etc) and a corp to corp contract, so you can work for any company (your benefits go with you) on project teams, contract positions, etc. Work like a contractor (when you go home, you go home) but benefits and security like…
INDEPENDENT RECRUITERS
INDEPENDENT RECRUITERS: We would like to work with independent recruiters to place professionals of all types (accounting, IT, HR, etc). The benefit to the recruiter is you can now provide placements on corp to corp contract as contract employees or independent contractors – giving you more opportunity than just permanent employment placements alone. Independent contractors through…
Returning Vet Startups
Instead of looking for jobs when they get home, a lot of veterans are starting small businesses, with the help of programs that cultivate entrepreneurship. (WSJ 11/11/10). Overall, this indicates many returning veterans are open to multiple options that include alternatives to standard employment.
Leaner is the Lesson
Speaking of the transformation of companies in response to the economic shift: “There has been a radical cultural shift in the organization. We will be much leaner going forward.” – David Fry, WCI Communities CEO (WSJ 10-14-10)
Cautionary Re-Training Tales
The WSJ reported last Thursday that jobless are biting on fly by night re-training programs that offer believable certificates in all kinds of cool sounding things (like Web Security) for which there are no jobs. The problem with some of these outfits is no placement to match their education. Of course, at FAS, we’ve long…
New Site Updated
We’ve built a new web site platform here, with entirely new features, social media integration, that we think will serve both California contract work seekers and California employers, HR, and hiring managers better. If you were an RSS feed subscriber, please re-subscribe to our new feed. You will only ever have to do this once.
Disabled Face Job Challenges
The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article (August 26, 2010), about the challenges disabled job seekers face in an economic downturn. The fear of added costs and accommodations, something that has always invited some amount of disparate treatment from potential employers, is causing outright discrimination in, possibly, a more pronounced way. John Grant, 50…