Peaks and troughs are part of the ride for any business, but a company based on the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia is helping those troughs potentially become valuable money-earners.
Technology provider BenchOn has re-imagined its “staff sharing portal” to help companies manage their workforces in new ways. Established by the City of Gold Coast, The Gold Coast Business Portal uses established technology to further strengthen the local business community, connecting local companies experiencing high demand for specialist talent with those that have talent to spare.
Springing out of the pandemic, the platform links businesses and helps them tap into another organisation’s under-utilised talent, or offer up their own staff, for-profit, to help others fill the gaps.
Founder and CEO Tim Walmsley said, “The foundation of BenchOn is all-around workforce management and ensuring that we smooth out the peaks and troughs in business so we can match the workforce capacity to where it is needed across industry. The collaborative platform system allows businesses to request support or offer out staff if they have the capacity.
“The AI algorithm matches companies that need staff with a company that has a person available at the right time and at the right price, and it works as a business-to-business subcontract, providing the support of a certain skill set for a certain period of time.”
As the world’s first business talent sharing platform, BenchOn sits firmly within the modern-day share economy. It supports more than 3,000 companies from global firms to banks and energy providers, through to small-to-medium businesses and start-ups that share staff resourcing and skill bases to plug short-term needs.
But it is the latest portal by BenchOn that is opening up new opportunities by putting a ring around the sharing perimeter and looking inwards. By linking businesses in a geographic area and applying the company’s match-making tech, the new Gold Coast portal allows local businesses to reallocate resources as demand changes, all while keeping jobs on the Gold Coast.
Paul Arkwright
Publisher
