Too big
for a spreadsheet
Contingent-worker identity is the one part of the operation no system manages. Employees have an HCM that opens and closes every account; contingent workers are tracked in spreadsheets, tickets, and tools built for other jobs — so the organization pays for the difference in staff hours, delayed starts, unused licenses, and repeat audit findings.
- Why the workarounds fail at any volume.
- What the gap costs per year, line by line.
- Why every existing tool leaks money.
- How to close it without replacing the stack.
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Where the money leaks — and what a fix actually has to do
The size of the workforce isn't the issue; the absence of an identity system is. The paper quantifies the gap and the way out across eight sections.
What "making do" costs every year
Administrative labor, worker wait time, and audit remediation add up to $300K–$780K a year at 200 contingent workers.
Why no tool exists for this population
Below ~25 workers a spreadsheet works; above ~500 it's often brittle, homegrown builds. In between, nothing purpose-built exists.
Where spreadsheets, ITSM, and directories fail
Each tool was built for another job, and each leaks money in a different place as contingent volume grows.
Written for the people who own the budget
Operations and Compliance leaders, IT managers, and the CFO or COO who owns the budget — at organizations weighing whether to keep working around the contingent-worker problem or to solve it.
Operations & Compliance
Live with the manual admin hours and the delayed starts every new engagement creates.
IT managers
Absorb the ticket volume and the orphaned accounts the workarounds leave behind.
CFO & COO
Own the budget the hidden cost leaks from, spread across three lines no one totals.
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