Gender Pay Parity Prototype for the ‘Gig’ Economy

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Context: The emergence of online labor markets is disrupting the way enterprises think about their workforces

Large enterprises are experiencing a two-pronged shift…1. Greater demand for agility: shorter project lifecycles, rapid change in mix of skills required2. Evolving needs and values in the workforce: Engaging work vs. long-term stability

The rise of the freelance – or ‘gig’ – economy enhances the ability to match people with work that best suits them. To take advantage of this significant opportunity organizations must change their thinking from static relationships, with fixed sets of human resources to leveraging a Liquid Workforce, ‘orchestrating’ across dynamic teams of internal and external labor pools.

Gigeconomy is Here: 43% of the US workforce is expected to be freelancers by 2020.1

1 “Intuit Forecast: 7.6M People in On-Demand Economy by 2020,” Intuit press release, August 13, 2015;

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Accenture Labs’ Prototype is designed to extend any online talent sourcing platform with functionality to promote equitable pay and hiring processes.

Our initial prototype has been built on top of the Accenture Labs Crowd Talent Sourcing Tool, which provides an intelligent unified interface for sourcing the right internal and external labor markets. The prototype provides a set of services that work together to promote fairness in 4 distinct ways. Existing Accenture

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Gender neutral job posts:We use a text analysis tool on the job description to quantify the appeal and gender neutrality of the post.

Job poster can get a more in-depth analysis in the text analysis tool

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Hiring process visibility:Hiring managers can understand any potential unconscious biases at play during the hiring process by viewing drop off by gender at each hiring stage 

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Pay Equity Awareness: By comparing proposed wages across genders against industry averages, hiring managers and applicants can see and address discrepancies

Government statistics sourcesApplicant’s proposed wages

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We intend to grow this capability as part of Accenture’s Liquid Workforce effort, integrating with our own platform and making it available for integration with other commercial platforms.  

Job Post Optimizer

Applicant Tagging

Wage Validator

Accenture Prototype

Hiring Analyzer

Text Analysis Service

Gender API Service

External Services

Data Sources

Accenture Crowd

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Upwork

Applause

OneSpace

External labor Markets

Future RoadmapData Sources:• Crowd platform

demographics data• Fine grained job

categories• Skills repositories• NLP analysis

Potential Partners:• Textio• Microsoft/LinkedIn• Upwork• US Dept. of

Commerce• Bureau of Labor

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Thanks to all those who participated in Accenture Labs’ prototype!

R&D Leadership Filming and Logistics Marketing and Media Relations

• Mary Hamilton• Manish Mehta • Alex Kass

• Musawer Choudhry• Lilibeth Gangas• Lakeisha Poole (of

Onyx)

• Kimberly C. Bonilla• Elise Cornille• Dominique Rougeau• Oriana Branon• Hannah Unkefer• Suzanne Randall• Ana Dujmovic

Data Analytics Accenture Developers External Developers• Jana Thompson• Allan Enemark• Stacy Joseph• Kelly LaBuff

• Chris Hawkins• Sai Srinivasan• Omar Tahboub• Veenu Arora • Sakshi Jain• Abhinav Kumar

• Aman Thakral• Jerrid Matthews

This project is an example of our Liquid Workforce tools and methodologies in action!

We created an liquid team, as the project progressed, where members filled roles based on their skills and availability.

Team Lead: Taurean Dyer

Thank you!

For more on Accenture’s Liquid Workforce vision: www.accenture.com/technologyvisionContact Mary Hamilton: mary.hamilton@accenture.com