From a very young age, we learn about the importance of good grades. It’s a universal way to succinctly measure your academic achievements or identify the cleanliness of a restaurant or which cut of meat you want to order from the butcher! And let's be honest, we all do double takes when we see restaurants with low grades on health inspections, and our minds go straight into analysis mode: do we really want to eat there? With this in mind, we architected our NEW feature, Supplier Scorecards, to give you instant insight into how well your suppliers are performing, and how best to engage with t ..read more

Happy New Year! How is it already 2023?! Before diving in and working on our new year’s resolutions and product roadmap for 2023 (though stay tuned, because TDX’s product deliverables for 2023 are pretty awesome), we thought we’d take the time to reflect on what 2022 brought us and how it’s forever influenced our product strategy moving forward ..read more

You asked, and we delivered! This month, we added a brand new SOW Quality and Risk Dashboard and revamped our entire Essential Insights collection of delivered, out-of-the-box dashboards in TDX.  ..read more

As laid out in our recent blog, “What a Strange Trip It’s Been,” when it comes to satisfying the demand for contract labor in their organizations, labor buyers have been on a rollercoaster ride for the past two years. Netting out the volatility of the ups and downs, though, most companies saw demand grow—in many cases, furiously. At the peak (from November 2021 through March 2022) there were roughly 15% more contingent workers on assignment in the U.S. than pre-pandemic. This increasing demand, exacerbated by tightening labor markets and inflationary pressures, has pushed up bill rates and sl ..read more

Everyone involved in U.S. contingent labor markets has been living on a roller coaster since 2020. We at Brightfield recently ran analyses with our TDX dataset* to pull out the major trends and the signals of where these important markets are headed next.  ..read more

The Story in One Paragraph With the backdrop of a tumultuous global economy, contract labor markets are increasingly volatile. Companies are running into significant and unanticipated cost and performance failures because they’re not sufficiently in tune with changing market rates and conditions. The good news is that a new approach exists—Guided Buying—which equips contract labor buyers, as they are buying, to make better informed, economically sound decisions. Our New Ab-Normal “Vibecession,” “’Weird’ Economy,” “Job-full Recovery” … Economists spanning the continuum from government types t ..read more

In the midst of all the summer heat (we hope all our friends in the extended workforce space are staying cool!), Brightfield is here to announce we’ve released our equally hot summer TDX product update. We focused our time this month in expanding data coverage, and enhancing the user experience within our features.   ..read more

Today’s Enterprise: 50%+ of the Workforce is Non-Employee with No Assurance of Equal Pay ..read more

In real time, we see how the markets for contract labor are changing in over 500,000 locations around the globe. I wanted to share a few things of note from the Q1 2022 U.S. data on contingent work. All of these data are from our TDX Platform, which our customers use to improve their use of contract work and their labor competitiveness in these fast-changing markets. TDX’s tools are built on the world’s largest dataset of actual contract labor transactions—and growing every day ..read more