“Project-based work is ever increasing, especially in areas like technology but in traditional areas like financial services and banking as well.”
There was a time when a liquid workforce referred to employees enjoying long lunches that extended deep into the afternoon, all in aid of oiling the wheels of commerce, of course. Those days are well behind us and the term has now come to refer to a blend of full-time employees, contractors and freelancers coming together quickly to form teams for particular projects and tasks and breaking up again just as quickly to move onto different projects.
“This transformational change has created the concept of the liquid workforce – an agile workforce with a mix of expert technology skills who can successfully collaborate on specific business initiatives,” Jordan adds. “We see this is as a cultural paradigm shift, as it moves company structures away from the traditional vertically aligned functional model to a distributed resource network model – thereby moving from initiating the output, to focusing on the activities towards success.
“We were able to put a message up of what needs to be done for the day and divide the tasks out among team members. That technology is open to SMEs and that’s an example of the liquid workforce in action.”