How the workforce is being rebuilt with agents and flexible talent
This week Rich Wilson launched the 40-40-20 workforce, while Sebastian Alvarez showed us the largest GitHub eval that turned into Remotely's secret sauce for evaluating developer talent. Plus the Community Call recap and where to find us next.
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This week across Human Cloud How the workforce is being rebuilt with agents and flexible talent This week made one thing clear: the workforce isn't being cut. It's being rebuilt, with agents and flexible talent taking the seats full-time headcount used to hold. First, Sebastian Alvarez, Co-Founder and CTO at Remotely, showed us the largest GitHub evaluation we've seen. His team analyzed the public commit firehose, then layered a human screen on top. 200,000 engineers evaluated, 8,000 accepted. That engine is Remotely's secret sauce for finding developer talent, and his take on hiring is blunt: the technical interview is obsolete. Screen for context, not code. 
Then Rich Wilson, CEO and Co-Founder of Gigged.AI, launched The 40/40/20 Workforce live with the community. The 80-20 workforce is over. The enterprise number is 40% full-time, 40% on-demand specialists, 20% AI agents. Gigged.AI runs it: 8 full-time employees, a fractional bench nearly double that, and 282% growth in 12 months with zero new hires. The book launch episode is live now. 
Both episodes land in a week where the data said the same thing. Temp help is the second-fastest-growing industry in 2026, and one in ten new jobs this year is a temp job.1 Jobless claims fell to 203,000.2 And the full-time path just got more expensive. DHS proposed a $103,265 fee on every new H-1B petition.3 More work is heading to the on-demand layer, not less. That 40% on-demand layer is where solutions get bought. Sebastian shows what a modern solution looks like under the hood. Rich gives the board the number for how much of the workforce that solution will own. "I would stop doing the technical test. I don't think that the technical test has any value anymore, in the sense that writing code by hand is not a feature anymore." - Sebastian Alvarez Don't believe us. Listen to these two episodes.
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From the Community CallYesterday was the Summer Blowout, the last prep session before a busy fall. Tony opened with the buyer side: 3,500 returning buyers a month, and the three things they're asking for this fall. Then the experts chimed in:
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Sources1. ASA Chief Economist: temp staffing is quietly powering 2026's job growth · Fortune, August 24, 2026 2. US jobless claims fall to 203,000 · Reuters, August 27, 2026 3. Trump administration proposes $103,265 fee for new H-1B visa petitions · The Hill, August 25, 2026 |
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