The Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast is live with another exciting edition. This week, we spoke to Wayne Surman and Jim Aiden of Milton Park Partners, a new contingent workforce solution (offering services similar to that of independent contractor engagement solutions), and also tackled some leftover questions from last week’s listener mailbag.

Welcome to another exciting edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast. On tap for this week’s episode is the February edition of our “listener mailbag” series. Discussions include:

• The keys to success for effective procurement and HR collaboration.
• The short-term impact of blockchain on global business (and contingent workforce management), and;
• A ten-year outlook for the non-employee workforce industry.

Highlights from this week's podcast include:

• Ardent’s definition of the future of work.
• The role of non-employee talent in the future of work ideal.
• The five key attributes of the future of work, and;
• How today’s changing world of work precipitates major shifts across talent engagement, mobility, innovation, and other future of work attributes.

This week’s “Super Bowl” edition of the Contingent Workforce weekly podcast takes a fun look at the two teams in this year’s big game (the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons) and draws some “lessons learned” from each in regards to contingent workforce management, including:

• The parallels between Atlanta’s historic offense and how businesses should consistently be looking for new sources of talent.
• Why New England’s top-ranked defense is an ideal analogy for a strong compliance and risk management strategy, and;
• How businesses can navigate the changing world of work based on these two top-tier football teams.