![]() But I think that, certainly after 2008, that perception changed. They often think of their workforce in more traditional terms, as solely being comprised of those people who are on the payroll. Some enterprises may not think about their total workforce, including their non-payroll talent. We were interested in how work gets done, with external workforces as the focal point. Our first study was with Oxford Economics in 2018, about the forces reshaping the future of work. What role is it playing? Where is it located? An, crucially, what are the business impacts that external talent is having? So, we wanted to find out where talent is being used throughout larger enterprises. There were smaller, more discrete studies, but were not representative of large enterprises, which is the primary customer base of Fieldglass. Another thing that we found was that a lot of the data out there tended to represent small and medium-sized businesses. We wanted a better mosaic of that information, and we didn’t want to rely solely on pockets of information. ![]() When I joined in January of 2017, I realised that we were not seeing enough data on external workforce management, and the market was representative of large enterprises. These workforces are typically made up of contractors and freelancers, as well as services providers such as professional services, marketing agencies, facilities, anything that might be outsourced. SAP Fieldglass is a leader in external workforce management, which involves helping organizations to plan and manage, end-to-end their contingent workforces. Fieldglass started in 1999, and was purchased by SAP in 2014.
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