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Matthew: I do want all A players. I do not want to pay for someone that is not outperforming. Now I do not care if that means that they are only working 10 hours a week. I want outperforming on 10 hours a week. I do not want everyone to be the same up till 2am robot. But I do want the best possible person in every single role overperforming.
With that said, I do not know exactly what format that should take. What I historically have heard from HR is, okay, we are going to help you with the job process, and we are going to create the job requisition, we are going to have our TA team. And I would turn to them and say, no, I do not need a full-time employee here. I need this outcome done. I need to go to market, which is going to require a paid ad specialist, a graphic designer, an engineer, whatever. And HR could never really help me with that. They would always just say, let me help you create the JD. And I would say no, that is not helping.
Lee Cage Jr.: Moonlighting, gigster type of work has been happening for a really long time. And it is actually underrepresented in the market, in my opinion. So I think there is certainly a case for the gigster.
To the A player, if everyone is performing at a hundred percent or at that A grade, I in some cases have a tremendous amount of respect for the person who is just like a taskmaster. They can just do that task. They are not exceptional at the job, but they do those tasks really, really well. And then those people who are more operational, then those people are more strategic.
The independent contractor world sometimes gets frowned upon. But in my view, especially living here in Tennessee, everybody is an independent contractor. You may have a full-time job, but your full-time job in Tennessee is an at-will state. They can decide tomorrow that you no longer work there. And as a result, you are like a contractor.
There have been times in my past where I am like, hey, I am really good at this thing. Who needs this thing? And people are like, yeah, we want to hire you. I do not want to do the thing 40 hours a week. I want to use this creative part of my brain, work eight to ten hours a week, or work 10 or 15 hours a week, help you all be successful, and then go buy a new car. That is really what I want.
Because we typically see things only as one FTE, we sometimes miss the opportunity for those 0.25 or that 50%, or just that person who is really great at doing the thing and just wants to do this thing. That is why places like Human Cloud exist, to help augment and to help people change their mind around how work gets done and who does it.
