C-suite Goes Gig as Demand For Fractional Work Rises (axios.com) 24
There's been an explosion of interest among senior executives -- including C-suite leaders -- in going gig, or "fractional." From a report: "People don't want to go back to pre-COVID -- [they] want control, more work-life-balance, and a say over who they work with and how they work," Karina Mikhli, founder of Fractionals United, a 13,000-member community group, tells Axios in an email.
A fractional leader is someone with lengthy experience who works part-time and long-term to help run and represent a company, according to Mikhli. They are "on the org chart and have a seat at the leadership table," she says. Consultants, on the other hand, sit outside of organizations and work on a project basis.
Khadijah Robinson, a fractional COO for young companies, started committing to the role at the start of 2023 after being burnt out from "a nonstop decade of go, go, go," she tells Axios. "I also wanted to be able to work on multiple things," she says.
A fractional leader is someone with lengthy experience who works part-time and long-term to help run and represent a company, according to Mikhli. They are "on the org chart and have a seat at the leadership table," she says. Consultants, on the other hand, sit outside of organizations and work on a project basis.
Khadijah Robinson, a fractional COO for young companies, started committing to the role at the start of 2023 after being burnt out from "a nonstop decade of go, go, go," she tells Axios. "I also wanted to be able to work on multiple things," she says.
How's that again? (Score:5, Insightful)
This doesn't ring true at all. How is she going to "work on multiple things" without being "go, go, go"? Unless she's planning to half-ass all of them.
I'm pretty sure this statement was more personal marketing than anything else, though.
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Being a COO is a full-time job.
If someone is doing it part-time, then they're just a figurehead, and someone else is actually running things.
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Probably need to meet ESG/"whatever they renamed ESG to" requirements for C-suite. Someone does the actual job, she gets the title and company meets a DEI quota. And gets Governance bonus points for "innovative governing structure".
Smart.
Yep, fractional (Score:2)
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"How is she going to "work on multiple things" without being "go, go, go"? Unless she's planning to half-ass all of them." ...Or a small company doesn't need 40 hours per week every week of specifically operations oversight. Rather than assign that oversight to someone already in the company doing other work that is not qualified, you can get someone that is qualified but only when you need them.
This isnt new (Score:3)
Every executive I have worked for has worked for or with multiple companies, including board meetings.
There is nothing that says "I dont do shit for the company I lead", more than executives with multiple jobs and positions for other companies.
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Don't insult a bum like President Elon like that.
Implicit in that (Score:4, Interesting)
Apparently English is not your language. (Score:2)
Gig work is task based, not time based. Me working a little for a guaranteed long time is part time work (or a slave).
Uber Driver/CEO/Barista (Score:2)
What could possibly go wrong?
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The barista personally picks me up from home to make me a latte I like it, I like it.
Surprise, surprise (Score:2)
I'm really tired of being pissed on (Score:3)
I can't always tell fact from fiction, it's tough when you're always being lied to, but there are some things that are just so bleeding obvious.
Giving up worker protections people literally died for is one of those things.
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Like how Elon Musk just told me I (and everyone else here) are retarded so we need more H1-Bs.
That sounds about right in your case.
I can't always tell fact from fiction,
The word for that is schizophrenia.
it's tough when you're always being lied to, but there are some things that are just so bleeding obvious.
Lied to by whom? Nobody ever said that American workers lack the intellectual capacity for these jobs. For some jobs however, it's incredibly hard to find people who not only have the aptitude, but also have basic soft skills that you're unfamiliar with. Like being punctual, working in a team environment, etc. In an earlier post, I referenced SpaceX hiring H-1Bs for ASIC design engineer jobs. There's no vocational training for that. The
Re: I'm really tired of being pissed on (Score:2)
You have not a clue what schizophrenia is.
Re: I'm really tired of being pissed on (Score:2)
More than you do, it seems.
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You haven't been listening to Elmo and Rama-lama-ding-dong in the last few days. They resorted to calling traditional American Maggots "retards". And Rama-lama says Americans are busy watching video devices while immigrants are buckling down and teaching their kids how to succeed, i.e., study hard, get good grades, mind your Ps and Qs., etc., more or less what your grandmother told you.
Elmo has gone so far as to cramp down on Trad-Maggots Xitter accounts removing....gasp....should I say it....their "blue ch
Re: I'm really tired of being pissed on (Score:2)
You haven't been listening to Elmo and Rama-lama-ding-dong in the last few days.
No, I haven't been. Honestly I've got better shit to do than scroll twitter and reddit all day. But given you clearly want me to, talk like a normal person instead of the constant use of reddit speak, because I have no idea who the hell half of the people you're talking about even are. And provide direct references to them saying these things. As it is right now it sounds like you're just repeating things that somebody else paraphrased and/or took out of context in order to get "likes" from their echo chamb
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You like thinking about those transsexuals, don't you? What is about them that turns you on? The sex? The clothes? C'mon, lay it on us.
I like it! (Score:2)
This is the same thing as the overemployment movement, but its above the table. I'll have to remember this one next time a recruiter cold-calls me on linkedin, that I'm open to work "fractionally".
I'll rephrase it... (Score:2)
Overpaid leeches who receive a fortune just to show their faces and say obvious things for a few minutes a month call themselves a "fractional worker" just to convince the gig-working rabble who kill themselves 16 hours a day only to make ends meet that they are people too and that we are all in the same boat.
This is just a way for hyper-ambitious (Score:4, Informative)
If the companies fall for this, they deserve exactly what they get - they'll pay full-time CEO wages for a fraction of the person's time. Good luck getting any focused leadership out of that guy. He's juggling 3 separate companies, two mistresses, and still managing to get in a full round of golf and a two-martini lunch on most days. The cocaine makes it doable.
Oh, and the same guy who's triple-timing? He's definitely implementing "full time back to office" policies because that's what's most efficient. For everyone else.
It's up to the company owners and boards of directors to reject this crap, or they deserve the degraded leadership that they'll be getting.