The NIH appointed a Biomedical Workforce Task Force to propose how to deal with some of these problems.
We also found arguments that pointed to the importance of a contingency approach to management of health workers: effective managers implement management practices that have a good fit with the nature of their workforce, the tasks of the organisation and its environment.
In September 2010, the Dietetics Workforce Demand Task Force, in consultation with a panel of thought leaders, identified 10 change drivers that affect dietetics workforce supply and demand.
Gigwalk, which launched last year, basically allows companies to tap into a mobile workforce for simple tasks.
Gigwalk, which launched a few months ago, basically allows companies to tap into a mobile workforce for simple tasks.
Gigwalk, which launched in 2011, has pivoted from employing a broad mobile workforce for random tasks from companies to allowing CPG companies to track campaigns and shelves for product placement in stores.
CrowdFlower launched at the TechCrunch50 conference (today's Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt) back in 2009, billing itself "labor as a service" tool using platforms like Amazon's Mechanical Turk to help businesses tap a remote, crowdsourced workforce for mundane tasks like photo moderation.
While it may be easy to imagine a technology company going protean by paring down its workforce and outsourcing tasks to contracted entities, it's harder to imagine in the restaurant industry, which has been among the fastest to react to Obamacare.
This can be perceived as a threat by the workforce executing the tasks targeted by the outcontracting process.
Consequently, in unpaid crowdsourcing, the lack of financial incentive potentially leads to an unpredictable workforce and indeterminable task completion time.
