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Do you really know what’s happening across your contingent workforce?
Many organisations rely on contractors, consultants, and SOW providers — yet lack clear visibility into who is engaged, how they are engaged, and where potential risks may exist.
Download the Visibility & Risk Checklist
A practical self-assessment designed to help you identify gaps in visibility, governance, and contingent workforce spend.
Why this matters
Contingent workers play a critical role in modern organisations. However, as programmes expand, visibility often becomes fragmented.
Different departments engage suppliers independently. Contractors are sourced through multiple channels. Statement of Work engagements frequently sit outside traditional workforce reporting.
Over time, straightforward questions become surprisingly difficult to answer:
- How many contingent workers do we actually have?
- Who is supplying them?
- How are they engaged across the business?
When those answers aren’t clear, organisations often face hidden spend, supplier sprawl, and increased compliance risk.
A quick self-assessment
This checklist is designed for organisations at the early stages of strengthening their contingent workforce visibility and governance.
In just a few minutes, you’ll explore five critical areas:
1. Workforce visibility
Do you have a clear and reliable view of who is engaged across the organisation?
2. Supplier ecosystem
How many recruitment agencies, consultancies, and SOW providers are involved in delivering contingent talent?
3. Ownership and governance
Is there clear ownership for contingent workforce strategy, oversight, and policy?
4. Financial exposure
Can you accurately quantify contingent workforce spend across departments and suppliers?
5. Practical next steps
Simple actions to help improve visibility, strengthen governance, and reduce potential risk.
Who this checklist is for
This resource is particularly useful for leaders responsible for managing complex workforce environments, including:
- HR and Talent Acquisition leaders
- Procurement and vendor management teams
- Compliance and risk professionals
- Finance and workforce planning teams
It is especially relevant for organisations operating across multiple regions, where compliance requirements, supplier relationships, and workforce visibility can quickly become complex.
What you’ll walk away with
After completing the checklist, you will have a clearer understanding of:
- Where contingent workers sit across your organisation
- How suppliers and engagement models are currently structured
- Where governance or ownership gaps may exist
- Potential compliance or classification risks
- Practical first steps to improve visibility and control
It’s a simple exercise — but one that often reveals insights organisations haven’t previously surfaced.
Download the Contingent Workforce Visibility & Risk Checklist
If you’re unsure whether your organisation has full visibility into its contingent workforce, this checklist is an excellent place to start.
It will help you quickly identify potential blind spots and areas where visibility, governance, and control could be strengthened.
Download the checklist
About CXC
At CXC, we want to help you grow your business with flexible, contingent talent. But we also understand that managing a contingent workforce can be complicated, costly and time-consuming. Through our MSP solution, we can help you to fulfil all of your contingent hiring needs, including temp employees, independent contractors and SOW workers. And if your needs change? No problem. Our flexible solution is designed to scale up and down to match our clients’ requirements.
