{"id":9008,"date":"2020-07-22T08:58:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T08:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/?p=9008"},"modified":"2023-11-27T13:48:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T13:48:25","slug":"heres-how-companies-are-partnering-with-global-freelance-talent-to-crush-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/future-of-work\/heres-how-companies-are-partnering-with-global-freelance-talent-to-crush-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s How Companies Are Partnering With Global Freelance Talent To Crush COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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As a company founder and leader, I know how helpless it feels to be stuck at home, worried about protecting your loved ones, your employees, your business in the midst of the unprecedented situation we are in today with COVID-19. We do all we can to reassure the people we feel responsible for. To preserve and rethink and adapt our business strategies to what\u2019s being called the new normal. Bottom line though, no matter how hard we try or fast we scramble, we don\u2019t know how this is going to play out. It\u2019s a tough place to be in, especially when you\u2019re used to bringing hard problems to resolution every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given how many of us are feeling, I wanted to share news of the targeted action our OA Collective members, all leaders in the future of work and open talent industry, are taking to help bring an end to COVID-19. These future-of-work experts\u2014the companies that provide the open-talent platforms, and the companies that utilize open tools<\/a>\u2014already have a global infrastructure of talented problem solvers in place. Here\u2019s how they are partnering with that talent to help crush COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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“Economic uncertainty may be the new norm, but even with this traumatic global disruption, technology innovation is alive and well,\u201d says Michael P. Morris, CEO, Topcoder. \u201cAmidst the anxiety,\u00a0the supply chain of virtual on-demand talent<\/a>, providing fuel to spark continued ingenuity and inspiration, is fast-tracking solutions and bringing things to market that will improve lives and keep the economy going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Topcoder has launched the\u00a0Topcoder Anti-Coronavirus Hackathon<\/a>, using the\u00a0Global Coronavirus Dataset, to develop a new app, algorithm or website to help government, organizations, or individuals during this unprecedented era (e.g., infection tracking\/notification solutions, online medical consultation platforms, etc.). In 72 hours from launch,\u00a0Topcoder’s Anti-Coronavirus Hackathon challenge<\/a>\u00a0topped 115+ entrants and 12+ technology solutions from around the world, demonstrating the collaborative nature of humanity to address a shared invisible threat. The challenge closes March 26. Winning solutions will be announced March 28, as will anticipated plans for development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Topcoder has also quickly responded to an increase in calls from companies of all sizes and geographic locations needing to work with\u00a0on-demand technology talent<\/a>\u00a0to keep their businesses moving forward by building an online presence. Entrepreneur Soofi Safavi, for example, used Topcoder to bring Wizard.fit, an integrated fitness application, to market in only 10 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Maven, a high-end expert network that was already managing its team 100 percent remotely, has experienced an influx of inquiries during this time, many of them centered on solving problems related to COVID-19 issues. Wyatt Nordstrom, Founder and Chairman of\u00a0Maven<\/a>, said they are offering their services gratis to any public health agency or organization involved in the fight against the virus\u2014the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, etc.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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John Healy, Vice President and Managing Director,\u00a0Kelly Services<\/a>, says Kelly Education is supporting its substitute teachers by strategically partnering with the app\u00a0Moonlighting<\/a>\u00a0so families can hire qualified educators to tutor students. All participation fees are being waived and the income will go directly to the teachers. This will support the teachers, and the parents, until schools reopen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Healy also says that Kelly Services, as the lead sponsor of iPSE-US, advocated for independent workers through the stimulus legislation, creating a \u201cpaycheck protection program\u201d for small employers, self-employed individuals, and \u201cgig economy\u201d workers, with $350 billion to help prevent workers from losing their jobs and small businesses from going under due to economic losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The idea management software company\u00a0Wazoku<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0InnoCentive<\/a>, an on-demand talent platform are running several COVID-19-related crowd competitions, with more detail\u00a0here.\u00a0One project is a COVID-19 open innovation pavilion and offering to run relevant challenges for companies, governments and NGOs. One of the successful projects thus far has resulted in a faster path to create ventilators, says Simon Hill, CEO of Wazoku. Go\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0to find more information.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cWe at\u00a0Verblio<\/a>\u00a0are working on guiding our customers and writers on getting tone right in your content and marketing at this critical time,\u201d says Verblio\u2019s CEO Steve Pockross. \u201cThe wrong word can make your marketing come off as obtuse or thoughtless.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0Verblio tapped it\u2019s platform community of content experts to create an educational blog post on\u00a0six best practices we implementing as a company<\/a>\u00a0to keep a mindful tone in times like these, and is creating a\u00a0video series<\/a>\u00a0offering tips from marketing experts on best practices in managing an agency through times of crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verblio has been working with its platform community of content experts to emphasize the importance of a key tenet of content marketing: Giving. Generosity is not a differentiator now. It\u2019s table-stakes. We are helping our clients understand the programs they need to offer now in order to support their clients. Content itself is education. Millions of people are at home, searching for information and resources. Right now is the time to offer online courses and give away services for free or at a discount. Put the pen to paper to share what you know.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Jesse Arundell, Executive Manager, Emerging Technology and Innovation at Commonwealth Bank of Australia says\u00a0Commonwealth Bank<\/a>\u00a0kicked off an Innovation Challenge to help crowdsource ideas from across the bank to help its SME customers. They are also setting up an internal task marketplace for their employees to ensure that they can keep working on what matters, regardless of any impacts COVID-19 will have on their change portfolio.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The future-of-work experts\u2014the companies that provide the open-talent platforms, and the companies that utilize open tools\u2014already have a global infrastructure of talented problem solvers in place. Here\u2019s how they are partnering with that talent to help crush COVID-19. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":775,"featured_media":9009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[488,108],"ppma_author":[3632],"class_list":["post-9008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-future-of-work","tag-freelance-talent","tag-future-of-work"],"authors":[{"term_id":3632,"user_id":775,"is_guest":0,"slug":"john-winsor","display_name":"John Winsor","avatar_url":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/medium_27f5a4cd-cb7d-41d4-bec9-44764514c4af-150x150.jpg","user_url":"http:\/\/www.open-assembly.com","last_name":"Winsor","first_name":"John","job_title":"","description":"John Winsor, an entrepreneur, thought-leader and global authority on open innovation, is the executive-in-residence at Harvard Business School\u2019s Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) and founder and CEO of Open Assembly, a company that provides content, community, and strategic advising for organizations, people and platforms to co-create the future of work. His books include \u201cBeyond the Brand,\u201d \u201cSpark,\u201d \u201cFlipped, and the best-selling \u201cBaked In,\u201d winner of the 2009 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award in marketing, Winsor is an advisor to the Interactive Advertising Bureau and the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School, and a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, The Guardian, Forbes, and Digiday."}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9008"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34400,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008\/revisions\/34400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9008"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=9008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}