The COVID-19 pandemic has completely disrupted how most global enterprises operate. With new priorities comes an urgent and strategically important challenge: ensuring that enough of the right people are working on the right opportunities at the right time, all while operating in an investment-constrained environment. Organizations should have visibility into their workforce capabilities and deployments to make informed decisions about how to optimally allocate their workforces.
Based on recently released research on opportunity marketplaces, we contend that market mechanisms can be a faster and more effective way to address this challenge than traditional workforce planning and deployment methods. There is evidence of organizations using marketplaces to accelerate the redeployment of employees and workers to business-critical roles and projects in a variety of industries and circumstances.