OnForce CEO Peter Cannone Recognized as Freelancer Management Leader

BOSTON, Oct. 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- OnForce, a leader in technology-enabled workforce solutions, today announced that for the second consecutive year CEO Peter Cannone has been named to Staffing Industry Analysts' 2014 "Staffing 100," a list of the 100 most influential people in the staffing industry as nominated by their peers, advisors and Staffing Industry Analysts' researchers and reporters.

Cannone was named to this year's list for his continued leadership in creating freelancer marketplace and management technology platforms. When Cannone joined OnForce in 2007, he saw a new type of "Task-to-Talent" work arrangement emerging in IT field services, where IT organizations sought to hire freelancers with specialized skill-sets for completing highly specific, short-term assignments. More recently, Cannone noted this same type of short-term freelancer work arrangement emerging outside of IT, and found that companies in education, health care, publishing, financial services and other industries did not have the tools necessary to effectively engage, manage and pay their growing private networks of freelance workers. In 2014, Cannone and his executive team launched OnForce freelancer management system (FMS), a first-of-its-kind platform that can augment existing vendor management systems (VMS) to offer companies across industries a complete extended workforce management solution.

"Today's independent workforce is very different from the one we experienced a decade ago," said OnForce CEO Peter Cannone. "Freelancers are demanding increased flexibility in their roles, and businesses are calling on them to complete jobs that are increasingly short-term in nature, lasting hours or even minutes as opposed to weeks or months. Our team at OnForce is at the forefront of freelancer management solutions that help businesses effectively engage and manage this new, increasingly independent workforce, and I'm thrilled that Staffing Industry Analysts has chosen to recognize our company's success and innovation in this industry for a second consecutive year."

This year also marked the 10-year anniversary since the launch of the OnForce platform for connecting companies with IT field services workers, and providing the tools to manage and pay these workers. Cannone's leadership has helped OnForce achieve numerous milestones: Most notably, more than 6,400 companies have now used the OnForce platform to find freelancers for more than 2.2 million assignments, including Apple, Xerox, AT&T, Comcast and other Fortune 500 companies. Between 2013-2014, OnForce experienced a 50% YOY revenue growth.

In August 2014, Adecco Group, the world's leading provider of HR solutions, acquired OnForce and merged the company under Beeline's portfolio of workforce solutions, including a vendor management system (VMS), Ellegro learning solutions (ELS) and now OnForce freelancer management system (FMS). Combining Beeline VMS with OnForce FMS gives customers unprecedented access to both a trusted supply chain and their network of highly skilled, carefully vetted and correctly classified independent contractors (freelancers) through one solution. To learn more about the Beeline and OnForce intelligent workforce solutions, visit http://www.onforce.com/beeline/.

About Beeline

Beeline is a market leader in software solutions for sourcing and managing the extended workforce. The company offers intelligent workforce solutions to help procurement, sourcing and human resources professionals optimize costs, reduce risks and add value to their local and international extended workforce programs. Award-winning business intelligence, superior technology, global networks of local knowledge, and service-driven people based close to its clients' operations make Beeline the best choice for today's leading enterprises. To learn more, visit beeline.com.

About OnForce

OnForce, a leader in SaaS technology-enabled freelancer workforce solutions, empowers companies of all sizes in all industries to gain a competitive edge in how work gets done. Its freelancer management system (FMS) allows customers to rapidly grow their businesses, lower service costs, extend skill-sets, and generate new streams of revenue. For additional information, please visit www.onforce.com

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