Accenture, Verizon and different cos construct hiring platform to attach companies

Anticipating job losses as a result of Covid-19 pandemic, Accenture, Lincoln Financial Group, ServiceNow and Verizon got here collectively to construct an employer-to-employer platform referred to as People + Work Connect, which brings collectively firms shedding individuals with these firms in pressing want of staff.

To date, taking part firms embody ADM, Baxter, Blue Apron, Cargill, Frito-Lay, Lincoln Financial Group, Marriott, Mondelēz International, Nordstrom, ServiceNow, Walmart, and Zenefits. Additionally, greater than 250 firms are anticipated to onboard over the following week, and the platform will quickly add public sector jobs.

The platform is relevant to all nations, together with India.

There is not any price for employers to affix and take part. The platform helps firms to quickly share the expertise and abilities of their laid-off or furloughed workforces to attach for free of charge with different firms on the platform which can be looking for staff.

The platform is world and cross-industry to maximise the power to deploy individuals with related abilities in a single {industry} into different industries the place jobs are being created. The firms anticipate the platform will shorten the advanced, typically prolonged cycle of unemployment for individuals. The analytics-driven platform swimming pools non-confidential and aggregated workforce data by classes corresponding to location and expertise.

“By providing real-time visibility into which companies need people and where People + Work Connect is designed to lessen the economic and societal impacts of the virus and help us work together to make a difference in the lives of hundreds of thousands of people,” mentioned Ellyn Shook, Accenture’s chief management and human sources officer.

People + Work Connect was designed by CHROs from Accenture, Lincoln Financial Group, ServiceNow and Verizon—and Accenture constructed the platform.

“This crisis has created massive job loss and people need help finding work. By connecting companies that are hiring with a talented and available workforce, technology is truly acting in service of people,” mentioned Pat Wadors, chief expertise officer at ServiceNow.