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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.
🙋♀️ From VPs to ICs
Lenny Rachitsky re-shared a post by Elena Verna that explores how for many, the next career flex is Expand 👇 going from a Vice President role. with a team (or teams), "back" to being an Individual Contributor (IC).
While most entry-level jobs are essentially IC roles, Anna is talking about "employees with no direct reports who can do work that used to take a whole team (all while still getting paid like a leader)". A High-Impact Individual Contributor (HI-C) if you will.
While the post digs into why the current corporate promotion ladder is dumb, and how Elena is now a HI-C at Lovable. Got me thinking, where would HI-C’s land in your org, and what could they do?
Lenny Rachitsky re-shared a post by Elena Verna that explores how for many, the next career flex is Expand 👇 going from a Vice President role. with a team (or teams), "back" to being an Individual Contributor (IC).
While most entry-level jobs are essentially IC roles, Anna is talking about "employees with no direct reports who can do work that used to take a whole team (all while still getting paid like a leader)". A High-Impact Individual Contributor (HI-C) if you will.
While the post digs into why the current corporate promotion ladder is dumb, and how Elena is now a HI-C at Lovable. Got me thinking, where would HI-C’s land in your org, and what could they do?
🌔 How the ‘chronoworking’ trend may affect your coworking space
Forbes contributor David Morel digs into a new workforce trend called ‘chronoworking’ which he Expand 👇 states "aims to fit work schedules around an individual’s circadian rhythm and optimum times of productivity, rather than the traditional 9 to 5 model." The trend which was coined by Ellen Scott, involves the re-evaluating of when we work as a natural evolution of the discussions around workplace wellbeing.
So what-the-fudge does this have to do with your space? If it does get adoption, and firms do offer different working schedules and times, access to your space will have to adapt or lose remote workers to spaces that do.
Forbes contributor David Morel digs into a new workforce trend called ‘chronoworking’ which he Expand 👇 states "aims to fit work schedules around an individual’s circadian rhythm and optimum times of productivity, rather than the traditional 9 to 5 model." The trend which was coined by Ellen Scott, involves the re-evaluating of when we work as a natural evolution of the discussions around workplace wellbeing.
So what-the-fudge does this have to do with your space? If it does get adoption, and firms do offer different working schedules and times, access to your space will have to adapt or lose remote workers to spaces that do.
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