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🫠 Is the org chart melting from the middle out?
Andrew Runnette at Biz Ops Studio lays out a structural shift: companies are quietly dropping Expand 👇 entry-level hires (junior dev postings down 53% per Indeed, per research from Erik Brynjolfsson’s lab at Stanford) while ramping up spending on fractional executives, now a $5.7B market growing 14% annually according to Vendux.
The new org shape is a small core team (see HI-C’s), with AI agents handling junior work, and senior fractional leaders or forward-deployed engineers brought in for specific needs.
The practical warning: if the entry-level pipeline dries up, there won’t be enough experienced senior talent to fill fractional roles in a decade, so companies and operators should start deliberately designing for this new shape now instead of defaulting to old hiring patterns.
Andrew Runnette at Biz Ops Studio lays out a structural shift: companies are quietly dropping Expand 👇 entry-level hires (junior dev postings down 53% per Indeed, per research from Erik Brynjolfsson’s lab at Stanford) while ramping up spending on fractional executives, now a $5.7B market growing 14% annually according to Vendux.
The new org shape is a small core team (see HI-C’s), with AI agents handling junior work, and senior fractional leaders or forward-deployed engineers brought in for specific needs.
The practical warning: if the entry-level pipeline dries up, there won’t be enough experienced senior talent to fill fractional roles in a decade, so companies and operators should start deliberately designing for this new shape now instead of defaulting to old hiring patterns.
⌛ Fractional offices are real, but not the main event
Damian Cotter at Nexudus shares what a panel (feat. Mark Goldfinger, Hannah Mojica, Michael Everts, Expand 👇 and Kane Willmott) in New York revealed about fractional office trends.
Namely they were: Sprint Spaces, Tues-to-Thurs, Daypasses as lead drivers and how fractional offices are already making up 10-20% of the rev stack.
PS. TWIC readers were tipped off about Fractional Offices in our original Undercurrents edition back in June 2024. Want even more early tip-offs and intel? Check out TWIC Intelligence.
Damian Cotter at Nexudus shares what a panel (feat. Mark Goldfinger, Hannah Mojica, Michael Everts, Expand 👇 and Kane Willmott) in New York revealed about fractional office trends.
Namely they were: Sprint Spaces, Tues-to-Thurs, Daypasses as lead drivers and how fractional offices are already making up 10-20% of the rev stack.
PS. TWIC readers were tipped off about Fractional Offices in our original Undercurrents edition back in June 2024. Want even more early tip-offs and intel? Check out TWIC Intelligence.
🧮 Do most operators need a full-time COO?
Andrew Runnette from Biz Ops Studio makes the case that most operators do NOT need a full-time COO, Expand 👇 but could leverage a fractional executive instead.
He also shares three ops walls that most operators hit, after having scaled Portal Warehousing from 1 to 7 locations.
Emerging trend: Fractional coworking leadership.
Andrew Runnette from Biz Ops Studio makes the case that most operators do NOT need a full-time COO, Expand 👇 but could leverage a fractional executive instead.
He also shares three ops walls that most operators hit, after having scaled Portal Warehousing from 1 to 7 locations.
Emerging trend: Fractional coworking leadership.
💭 Some takeaways from the recent conference in Berlin
Oliver Lehmann from ATworld shares some key takeaways from their Coworking Europe experience.
Oliver Expand 👇 took part in the panel on Fractional Offices (a term we popularized in our original Undercurrents edition in 2022), but other takeaways included how flexibility is table stakes, hospitality becoming the competitive edge, and the power of local ecosystems.
Oliver Lehmann from ATworld shares some key takeaways from their Coworking Europe experience.
Oliver Expand 👇 took part in the panel on Fractional Offices (a term we popularized in our original Undercurrents edition in 2022), but other takeaways included how flexibility is table stakes, hospitality becoming the competitive edge, and the power of local ecosystems.
💼 National network launches credit-based teams membership
Sheree Groves shares that Hub Australia has introduced Flexi Teams, a credit-based membership system Expand 👇 for remote-first teams (with a minimum size of 5 people) who want flexible office access without permanent commitments.
The membership allows teams to allocate monthly credit allowances for day passes, day offices, serviced meeting spaces, or member meeting rooms across Hub Australia’s national network. The product offers multiple membership tiers designed for teams ranging from light, regular weekly use to distributed teams requiring frequent in-person collaboration. Credits can be used flexibly based on team needs, whether for bringing everyone together for a day office or individual drop-in access.
This is an exciting development in the evolution of increasing the fractionality of space usage as companies look for greater utilization to increase efficiency of spend.
Sheree Groves shares that Hub Australia has introduced Flexi Teams, a credit-based membership system Expand 👇 for remote-first teams (with a minimum size of 5 people) who want flexible office access without permanent commitments.
The membership allows teams to allocate monthly credit allowances for day passes, day offices, serviced meeting spaces, or member meeting rooms across Hub Australia’s national network. The product offers multiple membership tiers designed for teams ranging from light, regular weekly use to distributed teams requiring frequent in-person collaboration. Credits can be used flexibly based on team needs, whether for bringing everyone together for a day office or individual drop-in access.
This is an exciting development in the evolution of increasing the fractionality of space usage as companies look for greater utilization to increase efficiency of spend.
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