The Founders' List: The New Generation of Labor Marketplaces and the Future of Work
In this episode, Pete Flint delves into the shifting landscape of the labor market, the rise of the talent economy, and the future of labor marketplaces. He explores topics such as verticalization, transaction ownership, job tenure and scarcity, reskilling, upskilling, and success factors for building labor marketplaces. He also discusses the transformative potential of labor marketplaces during a crisis and the current climate for building them.
Key Points
- Online labor marketplaces will play a crucial role in job placement post-COVID-19, with a focus on more complex services and vertical specialization to improve user experience and efficiency.
- Tech-enabled labor and automation are unlocking latent supply, allowing for a greater diversity of jobs and the upskilling of workers, which is essential as the economy evolves.
- Building successful labor marketplaces hinges on driving liquidity, reducing disintermediation, and leveraging the opportunity presented by remote work trends and the current influx of job seekers due to the pandemic.
This is The Founders’ List – audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
When the economy eventually normalizes, demand for labor will recover, and work will recover, but the shifts in supply and demand will result in a new and sizable set of unmet market needs for job placement.
Online marketplaces will be a critical tool in getting people back to work quickly, efficiently, and at scale. They will also enable new ways for people to build the skills they need to succeed, and for them to work in an increasingly remote and distributed fashion.
Listen to Pete Flint's essay on the 4 trends in the next generation of online labor marketplaces, including greater complexity, improved experience, tech-enabled labor, and re-skilling and upskilling.
Read the full NFX essay here - https://www.nfx.com/post/labor-marketplaces/
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