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Nov 27, 2024 | 
staffingindustry.com | Stephen Clancy |Eoghan Doherty
Senior Director, Contingent Workforce Strategies, Knowledge & ResearchStephen Clancy is a senior director at Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) with a primary role as leader and manager of SIA’s Certified Contingent Workforce Professional (CCWP) program. He is a member of the Contingent Workforce Strategies (CWS) Council team and a buyer analyst that contributes best practice advisory support to SIA clients.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Calam Pengilly |Stephen Clancy
A well-known Paisley figure is almost back to full health after a long battle with cancer. Local historian Stephen Clancy says he’s almost ready to resume his much-loved walks and talks after fighting illness for the past 16 months. Known as The Urban Historian, Stephen is a staple of Paisley society – showing curious Buddies and visitors to the town around its most interesting and entertaining nooks and crannies.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
cwstrategies.staffingindustry.com | Stephen Clancy
It is time for businesses and contingent workforce programs to reimagine their talent-sourcing approach. With an unemployment rate of 3.8% and about 8.8 million job openings, the US has an unemployed person per job opening ratio of 0.7 to one. And with an ongoing “silver tsunami” of retiring baby boomers, that is only going to tighten.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
cwstrategies.staffingindustry.com | Stephen Clancy
Tenure policies have been the center of a great debate in discussions pertaining to contingent workforce program management best practices for quite some time. And legitimate arguments exist both for and against establishing a tenure policy in an organization’s CW program business engagement rules. According to a recent SIA survey of contingent workforce management professionals, 67% of enterprise programs impose terms limits of some form.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
cwstrategies.staffingindustry.com | Stephen Clancy
During SIA’s CCWP Certification program’s risk module class sessions, attendees are asked to share a word or phrase that comes to mind concerning co-employment. Responses typically focus on the negative, with “danger,” “bad,” “risks,” “threat,” “negative financial consequences” and “avoid” being the most common.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
cwstrategies.staffingindustry.com | Stephen Clancy
Statement-of-work engagements carry an assortment of business and legal risks that contingent workforce management programs must be prepared for when they assume oversight. While some are similar to risks for staff augmentation engagements, others are very unique for SOW engagements. For example, a profound element of SOW engagement risk is based on the strategic importance of the engagement to the business.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
cwstrategies.staffingindustry.com | Stephen Clancy |Sharon Thomas
Since the landmark Vizcaino v. Microsoft case of the 1990s, where plaintiffs successfully sued Microsoft Corp. to participate in the company’s benefits plan, contingent workforce programs have sought to avoid co-employment risk. Among their strategies: instituting term limits, distinguishing contingent workers from employees via distinct badges and precluding participation in team activities.
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Jun 14, 2023 | 
cwstrategies.staffingindustry.com | Stephen Clancy
SOW: Establishing acceptance criteria a fundamental best practice A key risk when engaging a true, standard statement of work is completion. Appropriately, when taking on an SOW engagement, contingent workforce program managers might be concerned with overpaying for the engagement, effectively managing intellectual protection risks or even independent contractor misclassification.
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Apr 26, 2023 | 
cwstrategies.staffingindustry.com | Stephen Clancy
Milestones go a long way to help clarify how a statement-of-work project will be executed and completed and define the general critical path toward that completion. They generally exist as intermediate stages that must be fulfilled sequentially leading to the completion of a final goal or end of an engagement. Hence, clear execution milestones provide a critical success framework for the scope of an SOW project, not just the value delivered.
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Mar 1, 2023 | 
cwstrategies.staffingindustry.com | Stephen Clancy
Misclassification of workers as independent contractors is considered a significant risk for many companies, to the extent many indicate in SIA’s annual buyer surveys their plans to limit the use of such workers. However, some of the best talent in the marketplace are drawn to independent work. In fact, estimates suggest 60 to 70 million people are operating as independent contractors in some form, full or part time, in the US marketplace today.
