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RGP Launches Employee-Based Digital Platform for Professional Gig Workers
HUGO by RGP combines the firm’s renowned client service, credibility and employee model with unmatched speed, convenience, and transparency The platform
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nHUGO by RGP combines the firm’s renowned client service, credibility and employee model with unmatched speed, convenience, and transparency\n\nThe platform offers professionals W-2 and other traditional employment benefits while relieving businesses of costly HR, payroll and tax requirement burdens\n\n IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nRGP (Nasdaq: RGP), a next-generation global human capital firm, has launched a new digital staffing platform that offers accounting and finance professionals greater flexibility with the safety net of employee benefits – HUGO by RGP.\n\nHUGO by RGP is the first omni-channel platform to offer professional workers the protection, certainty and service benefits of RGP’s employee-based model while retaining the freedom and flexibility inherent in the new gig economy. Available exclusively to clients and professionals in the New York Tristate Region, the new platform empowers users with unprecedented transparency, speed and control, as well as the support of RGP’s expert client service team.\n\nRGP is changing the employment paradigm by helping businesses efficiently and effectively match and deploy the right professional talent with skills needed to tackle the clients’ critical initiatives with the perfect mixture of high-tech meets high-touch.\n\n“HUGO by RGP illustrates our commitment to the ‘Now of Work’ and the reality of how clients and professionals want to engage in this environment,” said RGP CEO Kate Duchene. “With in-demand skill sets growing faster than employers can keep pace, many of our clients are looking to ‘rent’ talent to fill those skills gaps. At the same time, business leaders shouldn’t have to choose between speed and fit. HUGO delivers both as well as transparency and choice to help companies meet their immediate short-term needs in this rapidly evolving ‘Now of Work’ environment—the right candidate, the right skills, the right time and the right rate.”\n\nFor employers, HUGO allows hiring managers to accelerate projects and timelines through a curated pool of accounting and finance consultants with in-demand skill sets—accessible in just a few clicks. The platform provides access to fully automated digital workflows from hiring to onboarding, time reporting and billing, as well as full visibility into candidates’ credentials, experience and rates. RGP’s unique W-2 based empl...