How to buy individual contractors and consultants properly (VIRTUAL)

Buying professional services can often mean weighty projects or hiring the BIG 4 for major initiatives spending millions of dollars.

Often, this sub-category is treated as part of the ‘Contingent labour’ flexible labour category.

However in a business environment gripped in a skills shortage, where the Bit-Economy is mainstreaming and freelancing after Covid is becoming more prevalent, how do you buy well when it comes to engaging individual contractors and consultants, often for operationally critical workplans. 

Can you group them? How do you avoid them being deemed employees in all but name? What are the real risks? How can you improve the deal? 

Your expert presenter

Kirsty Blokker, Head of Procurement, Mutual Marketplace.