The local community needed to know whose father, whose daughter, was on the platform. Some years back one of our customers had an oil Platform where a serious accident occurred necessitating an emergency evacuation of the whole platform. Let’s go back to that stat: 42% of workforce spend is spent on external labour and yet external labour are three times more likely to suffer an accident or fatality. The external workforce allows companies to flex like they have never needed to before. As companies try and build back better, they are re-looking at how to build resilience. Two years ago we were all trying to be “data-led”, and to base decisions on past : then Covid hit and all the plans went out of the window. The good news is that this Liquid Workforce can help companies thrive in the New Normal. This lack of visibility into almost half the workforce, and poor collaboration methods has put businesses under real pressure in trying to deal with the recent pandemic. Our recent survey shows that one third of firms still use spreadsheets, email and the phone to talk to external partners. The second is the way that enterprises communicate with these critical service providers has not kept up. Liquid because they are hard to pin down, and can easily slip through the fingers. And commentators are calling them The Liquid Workforce. And that 42% is an average, in many sectors like Financial Services and Oil & Gas its more than half. Huh? I mean they aren’t on your payroll, they work for a service provider, or are temporary workers, subcontractors or independents.īut still critical to your business, and your customers.

Almost half the people who work for you, don’t work for you.

The way I see it is that the arrival of the pandemic exposed our workforces to pressures that could never have been foreseen, but the impact was particularly severe because of two factors.Īlmost half the people who work for you, don’t work for you. To put it mildly, and various commentators have called this the “New normal”. I think we’d all agree it’s been quite a turbulent couple of years. SAP Fieldglass helps companies to manage the “Liquid Workforce” of key workers to address the new post-pandemic business priorities.

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