While all of the above may seem like good news for the gig workers, working with traditional enterprises who are new to the gig economy has certain challenges too. Such employers may not yet have effective processes for managing distributed teams: they lack organizational agility for fast-decision making, have notoriously long-billing cycles and often require the candidate to go through a lot of red-tape.
Or worse, you may lose a good hire if they are forced to jump through too many hoops to work with you. So how do you persuade skilled gig workers to partner with you? Show them what they’ll be getting out of the engagement. Will working for you make them more valuable in their niche? Can they feature your project in a case study, publish it in their portfolio or get a bunch of valuable referrals from you? All of these things can trigger the pros interest in partnering with you.