Companies across sectors are embracing flexible staffing models to fill critical talent and skill gaps. In today’s competitive talent landscape, flexible staffing models are helping enterprises add the required skills and expertise to address immediate operational and project needs. According to Aptitude Research, 80% of companies leverage contingent workers and more companies plan to increase their investments in a flexible workforce.
Investments in flexible staffing are particularly on the uptick in the healthcare industry. Healthcare leaders today are rethinking their talent strategy, embracing a flexible extended workforce in many operational areas including IT. To keep pace with market demands, improve the quality of innovation and increase productivity, healthcare leaders are injecting flexibility into their IT staffing models
Deploying a more flexible workforce management strategy like this provides healthcare organizations with a wide range of benefits. Chief among them are increased business agility, cost efficiency and access to specialized skills and wider talent pool.
Flexible staffing solutions are critical to operational agility in healthcare as this sector continues to grapple with the demands of accelerating digital transformation and changing market dynamics. To remain agile and resilient in this environment, healthcare leaders need the ability to deploy IT talent when and where they need it.
Flexible staffing models improve operational agility, allowing healthcare enterprises to scale talent resources up or down in response to changing technologies, projects and initiatives. Using this dynamic approach to staffing, healthcare leaders can quickly bring in new skill sets and capabilities, avoiding the typical months-long recruitment process that can delay projects.
The ability to tap into a skilled, flexible on-demand workforce enhances organizational agility, ensuring the right resources are deployed to address operational demands and take advantage of growth opportunities.
Paying only for the talent they need when they need it allows healthcare organizations to support teams and projects while containing costs. This flexible approach allows healthcare leaders to extend their IT teams without the high costs associated with hiring and benefits or other employee-related costs such as recruiting, onboarding and training.
Adopting a flexible approach to staffing also helps healthcare leaders create cost efficiencies by allocating resources more efficiently and avoiding overstaffing.
Modern healthcare enterprises today face the challenge of accessing specialized skills that are not available internally. This task becomes even more challenging as competition intensifies for healthcare tech talent with in-demand skills such as data analytics, software development and cybersecurity.
Embracing flexible staffing solutions can help healthcare leaders ease the pressure of finding talent with specialized skills like these. Using a flexible staffing model allows leaders to tap into pre-vetted talent with the skills and experience needed to make an immediate impact on projects and deliverables.
By leveraging the contingent workforce, healthcare enterprises also benefit from access to a wider pool of talent who can help mitigate skills gaps and keep technology projects and initiatives on track. This talent pool continues to widen as more workers opt for the flexibility of contract and gig work.
Access to a wider pool of talent increases the likelihood of finding qualified candidates with relevant skill sets that match needs, leading to greater efficiency, productivity, and innovation.
Traditional talent sourcing and hiring models don’t work well for today’s evolving healthcare IT environment. Flexible IT staffing models do. This approach to staffing helps healthcare leaders optimize workforce planning to reap the benefits of enhanced business agility, improved cost efficiency and increased access to specialized skills and a wider talent pool.
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Companies across sectors are embracing flexible staffing models to fill critical talent and skill gaps. In today’s competitive talent landscape, flexible staffing models are helping enterprises add the required skills and expertise to address immediate operational and project needs. According to Aptitude Research, 80% of companies leverage contingent workers and more companies plan to increase their investments in a flexible workforce.
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