Workforce Trends

Artificial Intelligence: MBO Senior Leadership Perspectives  

By MBO Partners

As part of our continued focus on how enterprises and independents interact with AI, members of our senior leadership recently offered their thoughts on several key topics, challenges, and strategies. We will delve deeper into some of these in future articles.  Welcome to the Wild West We’ve seen it time and again. When any new…

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Artificial Intelligence for Contingent Labor: Benefits and Challenges

By MBO Partners

Artificial intelligence (AI) can have a significant impact on companies that use independent contractor talent—from finding and sourcing contractors to engaging and onboarding them. AI tools can effectively source prospective independents, assess them without bias, and onboard them efficiently. With more companies drawing on contingent labor to build optimized or blended workforces, AI tools can be…

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How Fluent Are You in “Digital?” 4 Areas that Independent Professionals Need to Master

By MBO Partners

On-the-job technology has come a long way since Netscape days. As hardware and software have steadily evolved since then, workers and companies have had to keep up. Web browsers, email platforms, and phone apps are just a few of the technology tools that are embedded in the workplace. Now there are clouds, web-based collaboration spaces,…

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3 Questions to Ask About the “Future of Work” 

By MBO Partners

The future. It’s always out on the horizon. How will things look in 5, 10, 20 years? And how can we prepare ourselves today for the most likely scenario? The” future of work” has become a buzz phrase. What does it actually mean? The world of work has always shifted and changed in response to…

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Three Challenges Independent Creators Face and How to Overcome Them

By MBO Partners

Independent digital content creators are influencers, entertainers, artists, educators, writers, thought leaders, and more who make their living by using their skills or knowledge to create online digital content. In the influencer age, this is an enticing career path that many people are trying their hand at. But being a digital content creator doesn’t come…

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What Independent Digital Content Creators Can Bring to Your Enterprise

By MBO Partners

Digital content creators are a unique group of independent professionals. Combining interesting content with technical prowess, they have become an integral part of the digital environment. Primarily monetizing their businesses through a mix of advertising revenue, sponsorships, subscriptions, and product sales, creators in the US now number around 8 million people. According to our research,…

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Independent Digital Content Creators: 5 Traits

By MBO Partners

Independent creators are a group of full- and part-time entrepreneurs and small business owners who monetize their knowledge and skills through online digital content. This group has increased 14% from 2022, becoming one of the fastest-growing self-employment and independent work segments. Entertainers, artists, writers, videographers, influencers, and thought leaders are all independent creators who earn…

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3 Keys to Maximize the Benefits of Open Innovation

By MBO Partners

The business value of open innovation lies in its ability to drive creativity, flexibility, and efficiency by leveraging external resources and perspectives. Through open innovation challenges for its customers, MindSumo provides benefits that include: Accelerated innovation cycles. Instead of relying only on internal R&D, enterprises can leverage external ideas to bring new products and services…

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Job Security Is Evaporating. Now What? 

By MBO Partners

A person’s employment over multiple decades is a thing of the past. The notion of a gold-watch retirement has entered the realm of myth—to anyone in the younger generations of the workforce, such a thing borders on unbelievable. Instead, workforce cutbacks and layoffs have become almost commonplace.   The Employed Entrepreneur While a steady paycheck, benefits,…

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“Tethered Nomadism” – Unintended Consequences of Return to Office Mandates

By MBO Partners

In the wake of a global shift towards remote work, a once-niche lifestyle choice gained mass appeal: digital nomadism. Offices were vacated in favor of makeshift desks in living rooms, beachside resorts, or highland mountain retreats, proving that for many, work was no longer a place but a task that could be performed from any…

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