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In this episode of Recruiting Trailblazers – Marcus interviews Bruce Morton about his role at Allegis as Chief Strategy Officer and his book “Redesigning the Way Work Works”

Bruce shares how he advises Clients on workforce design and TA in the future - as well as actually leading the design of most suited services for the Allegis client portfolio.
Allegis Largest privately held staffing firm in world (owns Aerotek) and operates in all the usual talent verticals – technology, manufacturing, financial services, energy and healthcare.

On the subject of the Covid disruption - Allegis were able to get 20k people employees working from home in 2 days plus 500k workers WFH! A lot of perm hiring came to a stop. Bruce thinks it’s going to be a “tick mark recession” (quick entry and slow exit), and also thinks that the contract markets will expand due to lack of confidence – probably indefinitely. Plus we may reach a 50-50 mix of perm to on-demand workers in the not too distant future.
Marcus and Bruce discuss the cornerstones of his book – “Redesigning the Way Work Works”

What is Organizational readiness? 

What are Work Design Architects and why do all (big) companies need one?

What is a Talentsumer?

(Bruce describes how todays workers “consume” jobs in the same way that they might purchase any product or service.)

Deconstructing the work – what is the need for it? (basing your hiring decisions on your achievement goals rather than duties and responsibilities)

One of the highlight of the conversation - Bruce shares a great story about Ronald Reagan visiting NASA – asking a cleaner what do you do? 

He responded – “I helped put a man on the moon!”

Other key questions answered:

To what extent do companies have a properly mapped out mission and strategy – to increase the value of their offering to their clients?

Talent Architecture – can Companies check their egos at the door to allow the new workers to choose how best to engage with an employer to perform a specific set of tasks.

Do companies need to bear more responsibility regarding the retention of employees/workers in tough times like Covid?

Are companies finally measuring workers by productivity instead of activity?

Are remote workers in fact getting more work done at home – and isn’t this a big surprise?

Do you think hiring managers do enough to sell the opportunity to a candidate - or spend too much time assessing for fit?

The Glassdoor phenomena – does it work and what impact is it having on the world of work?

 Bruce explains why Allegis is such a great place to work!

 Links:

Bruce’s book “Redesigning the Way Work Works”

https://amzn.to/3iUcPJ3

John Boudreau’s book “Lead the Work”

https://amzn.to/3g6l2rX

Daniel Pink’s Drive – discussion around Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose.

https://amzn.to/3iTy7qm

Julie Coucoules https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcoucoules/

Matt Charney https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattcharney/

Connect with Marcus https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/