Acknowledgments

This chapter is an updated version of MIT 21st Century Initiative Working Paper #033, August 2000, http://www.ccs.mit.edu/papers/pdf/21cWP033.pdf. The authors gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship of CDI Corporation, which funded the research on which this chapter was based. We also thank the e/free lancers and people at large companies, staffing agencies and emerging guilds who agreed to be interviewed for this study. Special thanks to Brian Delate, Jordan Dossett, Roy Lagemann, and Alan Singer; and John Vines of APESMA, Nick Bubnovich of Arthur Andersen, Mary Ann Jackson of Cisco Systems, Jeff Diegel and Walt Garrison of CDI Corporation, Hilary Krant of elance.com, Carlos Cashman of freeagent.com, Walter Buckley of Internet Capital Group, Gary Kaplan and Paula Paris of Jobs for the Future, John Featherstone of Sun Microsystems, and Poonam Arora and Sara Horowitz of Working Today.

Our initial thinking on the evolution of the employment relationship was developed as part of the MIT Initiative on Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century. We thank the Initiative's sponsors for the funding that made this initial work possible.

We received perceptive comments on early drafts from Mitch Wienick and Tim Fitzpatrick of CDI Corporation;Barbara Leary and Domenick Argento of Ketchum; and Bill Hanson and Paul Gallagher of MIT's Leaders for Manufacturing Program.