Talent Marketplace

Definition

An internal system where employees can browse and bid on projects, which is essentially a gig economy inside your own company but with even less job security.

Example Usage

We launched a talent marketplace to help employees find cross-functional opportunities, and now everyone's negotiating their own side projects.

Origin

Concept popularized by LinkedIn and adopted by enterprise companies in the 2020s

Fun Fact

Talent marketplaces simultaneously sound innovative and dystopian

Source: Contemporary Workforce Innovation Standards

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