Ep. 55: David Obadia, The Human Cloud As The Future Of Human Capital Management

Description: David is a 30+ year vet in helping companies and leaders embrace external talent. From his early days of running a home based business to his current role helping companies hire freelance teams, David is a wealth of knowledge. 2:00 - David's background experience starting a home business in the late 90's and how entrepreneurs from Richard Branson to freelancers all started with a home business 2:06 - Background on why he joined Fieldglass to adapt to the speed of needing to train people in 2005 7:20 - Why why we need to go beyond hiring individuals and why he's all in on freelance teams 10:00 - history and tools of home based businesses 18:00 - What is Fieldglass, Vendor Management Systems and MSP's 23:45 - The complexity of using external talent. Hint...how do you define the work, find the talent, approve the talent, onboard the talent...AT SCALE 27:57 - Why external talent? 33:20 - What needs to happen for the freelance economy to be the norm? Hint...Atomize by breaking it into smaller chunks, shift from top down to bottom up. 34:15 - Will the world be 100% freelancers? LOL's... 40:00 - Traits of companies that are leading the way? Hint...Collaboration and visibility across the organization, especially between Procurement, HR, and working teams. 45:00 - Regional differences 49:21 - Blue collar vs white collar differences (physical vs knowledge work) 54:00 - What does the future look like? "Atoms will become molecules, freelancers will form into teams, freelancer usage will be formalized (we'll go from B2C to B2B)" Connect with David: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-obadia/