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How to Think Differently About a Flexible Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CATALANT

Harvard Business Review

Economists Lawrence Katz and Alan Krueger found that American workers in alternative work arrangements, including temp workers, increased by 9.4 They can be called upon to staff high-level projects that were previously too expensive to hire employees to work on full time. million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump.

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Are You Setting Your Data Scientists Up to Fail?

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, the failure rate of analytics projects remains distressingly high. A few days after my arrival, I was ushered into Steve Katz’s office, my director, who was three levels above me in the organization. I never did try out statistical control on the operation of the telephone network. Yet most find this difficult.

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