Sharon Thomas Sharon Thomas
Sharon Thomas is a senior editor at Staffing Industry Analysts, responsible for the Contingent Workforce Strategies 3.0 e-newsletter. She can be reached at smthomas (at) staffingindustry (dot) com.

When Contingents Get Offboarded at the Wrong Time

Do you have someone on your team designated to ensure steps don’t get missed in simple onboarding or extension processes around contingent workers? The results when a key person ...

Return-to-Office Plan? Read the Room Before Crafting a Strategy

Is leadership out of touch with its employees in corporate America? The answer is yes, according to research on companies’ return-to-office plans. The pandemic and various new Covid-19 ...

Going viral: When an engagement manager does not know how to manage an IC

It began with an engagement manager questioning why an independent contractor on his team did not attend a meeting. The IC clarified that his contract neither specifies hours nor includes ...

DE&I Within the Ecosystem: Reasons to hope

I am cautiously optimistic about the future of the ecosystem. When the SIA editorial team reviewed nominations for our inaugural Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Influencers list recently, ...

Call for Nominations to this year’s Global Power 100 – Women in Staffing List

Twenty-five women. That’s the most women that we have had in the past six years on our flagship list, The Staffing 100. Yes, it’s disappointing that we were unable to honor more ...

Why ‘Take Your Child to Work Day’ Is Not Bizarre Amid Covid-19

When I first realized April 23 is Take Your Child to Work Day, I nearly laughed. Surely that’s pointless this year, right? Is it even worth it to recognize Take Your Child to Work ...

Term limits have little benefit when adopted to avoid co-employment

I like to blame the Vizcaino v. Microsoft case for the ongoing misconceptions around co-employment and tenure limits. I remember the headlines. The standouts used the term “permatemps” ...

Start Early: Invest in the workforce of the future

As an editor at Staffing Industry Analysts, I’m intimately familiar with the struggle so many organizations face now. Not only is talent scarce just in terms of numbers — unemployment ...

A tale of CW program managers: Send in your choices now, nominations close July 15.

The rise of the gig worker is a tale that will be told for many generations to come. It is one of the most important stories of our time. Why? Because organizations need to become much ...

Don’t become talk-show fodder

Being a contingent worker can be dangerous. And I am not being facetious here.  It took an HBO segment to write this post. In his March 31 episode of “Last Week Tonight” ...

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