We have witnessed a decade of increasingly frantic discussion about the global tech skills gap crisis but for all that talk we have yet to see a viable solution - until now with the advent of "elastic teams".
A recent McKinsey Global Survey found that 87 percent of executives said they were experiencing skills gaps in the workforce or expected them within a few years, whilst another study by Ceridian and Hanover Research found that employees with more tech skills would be needed by 80 percent of companies over the next two years. Meanwhile, IBM reported that more than 120 million workers across the world's 12 largest economies may need to be re-trained in the coming years.
The familiar tech skills gap narrative tells us that there is no lack of job vacancies - in fact the demand for technology talent is growing across every industry - yet many cannot be filled because the workforce is leaving university without the necessary skill sets.
About Distributed.co
Distributed is a tech-enabled startup founded in 2017 on the belief that businesses of the future will thrive without the need for technical development teams-in-residence. Through the Distributed platform clients can work with fully managed, globally distributed teams as easily as local teams, allowing them to build and maintain software faster, safer and with more visibility than ever before. With Elastic Teams clients can scale up and down team activity based on requirements and compose their teams of any programming skill sets. Distributed maintains a workforce of full-time project managers, technical leads and quality assurance leads that are deployed on every client project. This means every project is fully managed from brief to delivery to ensure the most efficient and highest quality result for the client.
