For those who have implemented an internal gig marketplace for short-term assignments / projects: what successes and challenges have you faced in adoption and impact?
Thanks for the response Erin!
We were able to fill some short term gaps in teams, there has been a surge of interest in roles who were not very visible. We have seen people collaborating more cross-business unit. Definitely cost savings by utilizing internal talent. The main challenge was balancing workload and priorities across projects mainly.
Thank you so much for sharing your situation Ray! Glad to hear it was a success and the heightened interest in roles sounds like a huge value add.
I appreciate the insight into workload balance and that is definitely top of mind as we begin to ideate on this. One idea I have is borrow's Google X% approach as a guardrail for setting limits on gig lengths etc.
Hi Ray! We are looking to implement an internal marketplace and would love to learn from you! Please let me know if you would be willing to chat.
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Don't underestimate the political wrangling over budgets
It does generate more movement ( from the backfill of assignments)
We did get a Manager try to split out a whole job into gigs and it was unmanageable and affected performance of the whole team
Really have your tracking system sorted out
Hey Peter, thanks for the response and as we've piloted we've discussed the risk in your 3rd point about managers potentially abusing this to split out whole jobs. We've indicated this as a no-no in ground rules but we'll definitely keep watchful eye.
Thanks for the response Christine! We're a few weeks into your pilot and to your point, I think we'll need to figure out what success looks like. We've been lucky in that a few employees who've taken on gigs have been vocal that sharing their (positive) experience, but it'll be key that we have some empirical data on this as well.
Thanks Eric! Agreed and I think we'll face that the talent hoarders challenge as we scale out our program.