Human Cloud

The tech industry laid off thousands of people 18 months ago. This past year it hired almost all of them back, nearly one to one. That whiplash is what happens when companies chase AI headlines instead of a workforce strategy. Technology does not create value. People working with technology create v...

The share of workers in traditional full-time jobs shrinks every year. Companies that keep fishing in that pond are competing over a smaller and smaller pool. The talent that is actually growing works on contract, works remotely, and lives on the other side of state lines most employers are not set ...

Every founder running a talent solution gets the same email. A broker, a strategic, a private equity associate, asking whether you would ever consider a conversation. Most founders have no framework for answering, so they either ignore it or take a meeting they were never ready for. Mark Herbick has...

Most AI headcount conversations start in the wrong place. A leader sees a 20% workforce reduction and a 10% stock bump and calls it strategy. Maruf Ahmed has watched three technology waves roll through the talent market from inside a company that staffs half the Fortune 500, and he thinks that math ...

Most talent companies start with a thesis. This one started with a health crisis. Michael Bassin was a chief revenue officer in Israel when he lost hearing in one ear overnight. The treatment made things worse. Two years of debilitating symptoms later, he left his job, left the country, and started ...

The 80-20 workforce is over. Full-time headcount is no longer a badge of honor, SOW spend is a $2.1 trillion market and the fastest-growing work category, and every enterprise is being asked what it is doing about AI agents. Rich Wilson has a number for where that lands: 40% full-time, 40% on-demand...

Every engineering leader is being asked the same question right now: if AI writes the code, why do we still need the team? The answer nobody wants to hear is that code was never the bottleneck. Writing more of it, faster, just means shipping more software nobody asked for. Sebastian Alvarez co-found...

Every enterprise transformation starts the same way. Leadership tasks HR with fixing how work gets done. Then procurement. Then a consultancy. Nothing moves. The people who actually do the work are the last ones in the room, and usually they are not in it at all. John Healy ran the experiment in rev...

Most CEOs have the same private complaint about HR: it shows up with workshops when the business asked for revenue. The function that owns the single largest line item on the P&L is still, in a lot of rooms, treated as overhead. That gap is not an HR problem. It is a translation problem. Lee Cage Jr...

Almost everyone who tries offshore software development has a horror story. Matt Watson heard those stories for years before he built a 300-person engineering firm that works, and his conclusion was that the failures had nothing to do with talent, cost, or time zones. They came from a structural cho...