EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Joao Martires, COO at YunoJuno, explains how a global leading FMS allows enterprises to onboard talent in 24 hours without sacrificing cost control

As the independent workforce continues its rapid expansion, enterprises face mounting pressure to move faster, work smarter and compete globally. For Joao Martires, COO at YunoJuno, a global leader in Freelancer Management Systems( FMS), the solution lies in transforming how companies approach contingent talent through strategic partnerships and category-defining technology. The shift toward independent talent has accelerated dramatically in recent years.

“ If we think back to when COVID happened, it shaped the foundations of the world of work and workers became far more distributed,” Joao explains. This distributed reality, combined with AI advancement and macroeconomic pressures, has created an urgent need for enterprises to“ move fast, stay flexible and keep tight control on cost.” Legacy contingent workforce systems simply cannot keep pace. Traditional platforms are“ fragmented” and“ slow” when it comes to onboarding and classification, Joao notes.

What enterprises need today is the consumer-grade experience they have come to expect from platforms like Amazon and Uber.“ We are seeing the contingent

workforce now following a similar pattern we saw with those consumer platforms, just playing out several years later,” he says.

This is where YunoJuno’ s partnership model becomes transformative. Rather than simply providing software, the company takes an ecosystem approach that integrates deeply with client objectives. When working with partners like Ontonia Hamlin, SVP of Procurement & Real Estate at Real

Chemistry, YunoJuno focuses on understanding their needs, what key milestones they want to achieve in the next 6 to 12 months and the talent and skillsets required to deliver this.

The competitive advantage comes from visibility and speed.“ If you need someone for tomorrow and you need to complete all the compliance checks, onboard them, and issue contracts, you can do it within 24 hours with an FMS versus waiting three, four, six weeks, sometimes even longer,” says Joao. In fast-moving markets, this time-to-talent gap can mean the difference between capturing opportunities and losing them to competitors. That said, partnerships with YunoJuno extend far beyond deployment speed. The platform provides real-time visibility into contingent