When businesses are struggling to retain their best people and 25% of people in the UK have a side hustle - do businesses need to embrace their people having more than one job and one focus?
Rather than just working with freelancers as external resources to augment our internal teams - should we also be looking at how we support our internal teams to build their own businesses too?
Imagine …. if every microbusiness had the support of a parent business for access to resources, financing, tools, collaborators - would we see more success? And the benefit to the parent business - an equity share in a hundred small businesses, which could go on to be the next Apple, Amazon or Google.
This white paper from Henley Business School is fascinating, and prompts some interesting questions on what modern work needs to look like.