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title: "The New Normal: 4 Contingent Workforce Trends to Expect in 2021"
description: With 2021 right around the corner, we’ve compiled four contingent workforce trends you can expect in the new year.
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January 18, 2021

# The New Normal: 4 Contingent Workforce Trends to Expect in 2021

Written by: [Kara Hertzog](https://blog.innovativeemployeesolutions.com/ies-blog-nb-24/author/karahrtzg)

An unprecedented year created unfamiliar challenges for companies and their HR departments in 2020. Many businesses shuttered, and others watched their workforces go completely remote overnight. Throughout it all, the stress of the pandemic weighed on workers in countless ways.

These trends and the emerging future of remote work have created opportunities to find and use contingent workers in numerous new ways. **We’ve compiled four contingent workforce trends you can expect in 2021.**

 

## **Read the full article in [CEOWORLD Magazine](https://ceoworld.biz/2021/01/15/the-new-normal-4-contingent-workforce-trends-to-expect-in-2021/) here.**

 

The guest contributed article was written by [Kara Hertzog](https://www.innovativeemployeesolutions.com/team/kara-hertzog/), President of IES

*[Kara Hertzog](https://www.innovativeemployeesolutions.com/team/kara-hertzog/) is president of [Innovative Employee Solutions](https://www.innovativeemployeesolutions.com/) (IES), a leading global Employer of Record in more than 150 countries that specializes in contingent workforce solutions such as outsourced payrolling, independent contractor compliance, and contractor management services. Founded in 1974, IES has grown into one of San Diego’s largest women-owned businesses and has been named one of the city’s “Best Places to Work” for 10 years in a row.*

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