Opinion

October 27, 2020

The white-collar gig economy could be the secret to faster innovation

Tapping into a marketplace of professional skills corporates could go from running 3-4 experiments to running 40.


Chris Locke

4 min read

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According to a recent FT article, the speed and depth of COVID into a companies P&L has been so cataclysmic, that 20% of all European companies will exhaust all of their working capital, severely hampering their ability to contribute back to renewed growth.

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