[P2P-F] Fwd: Could ‘Pop Up Employers’ Replace Contracting As We Know It?

Wed Sep 13 07:37:53 CEST 2017

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The ‘gig economy’ has a new trend coming, according to Stanford University
researchers featured in this piece. They call it ‘flash organisations’,
which they define as ‘ephemeral setups to execute a single, complex project
in ways traditionally associated with corporations, nonprofit groups or
governments’.

What’s interesting about the projects they analysed is that the concept
seems to bring back middle management: where traditional freelancers
typically perform worker-bee tasks, ‘pop-up’ companies tend to combine both
workers and managers.

The piece highlights interesting findings on the social behaviour side too:
“One thing that was really surprising and exciting about what we saw was
how quickly flash organisations developed solidarity and collective
behaviour.”

The article also pays attention to the downsides: while fostering
flexibility, the model could easily compound insecurity as temporary firms
are not likely to provide things like health or retirement benefits.

It will be interesting to see how and in what areas ‘flash organisations'
might grow next.

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Source: Noam Scheiber | nytimes.com on 07/20/2017 | Image: Minh Uong |
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