These were the best Talent Economy stories from the week of July 31-August4, 2017:
The Self-Employed Workforce Comes with Benefits, Caveats: An increasingly self-employed workforce would provide many benefits for business leaders looking for a more agile source of talent, writes Associate Editor Lauren Dixon. Still, caveats remain.
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Talent10x: What Trump’s Transgender Military Ban Means for the Workforce: The latest episode of the Talent10x podcast features Workforce editor Rick Bell as he interviews employment lawyer Jon Hyman on the workforce implications of President Trump’s call to ban all transgender people from the military. Listen here or subscribe to Talent10x on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or Tunein.
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How Good is Your Company’s Executive Team?: An organization’s success largely rests at the top, writes Talent Economy Influencers Alice Cahill, Lawrence R. McEvoy II and Laura Quinn. Here’s how to measure the most important team any company has.
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Is the Talent Economy in for a Role-Less Future?: Technology already appears poised to replace many human jobs. But the more dramatic change it might bring to the future workplace may be more in the roles humans take on at work, writes Managing Editor Frank Kalman.
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From the Summer 2017 Quarterly … How to Redesign Learning for the Modern World of Work: To properly equip talent for today’s business challenges, leaders are going to have to redesign learning for their organizations, writes Talent Economy Contributor Victoria Halsey.
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Also, check out Talent Economy‘s new video series featuring AE Lauren Dixon on our YouTube page. Here’s the latest video on Lauren’s story about gendered jobs from last week.
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Finally, here are the top talent stories from around the web for Friday, August 4, 2017:
Hiring remained strong in the month of July as more people rejoined the labor market, reports The Wall Street Journal.
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The Philippines just made free college tuition a reality, reports Quartz.
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The ranks of female executives are on shaky ground as Avon’s CEO is set to step down, according to The New York Times.
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Big data is coming to health insurance, writes Bloomberg.
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Finally, unproductive entrepreneurship is increasingly common in America, from The Economist.
