The open source movement suggests some parallels between the evolving world of contract work and that of open source. Like open source software, the flextime remote contractor allows:
- decentralization of corporation project teams
- ability to plug and play specific individuals with niche talents on an as-needed basis
- ability to easily scale project teams
- movement away from proprietary, inflexible company project teams
- greater transparency for information silos within the organization, since the contractor is often empowered to work outside departmental boundaries
- availability of international talent; no restriction to local workforce pools
- reduced cost for the organization
- cross-fertilization of corporate culture via contractors with broad experience in other firms.
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