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Stuart Gentle Publisher at Onrec

blur brings s-commerce to HR sector

Major new category is announced to further disrupt traditional players

blur Group plc (BLUR), the s-commerce company, announced today further expansion into a new category, as it prepares to launch HR on its Global Services Exchange. The move will see services commerce provide significantly more choice and efficiency in an area currently dominated by large service providers.

HR Services will offer three main project types: Executive Search and Selection; Training and Development; and Benefits and Remuneration planning. The former in particular will allow companies to brief outside of traditional headhunters - a more competitive process that opens up a long tail of providers. HR experts can start to sign up with the launch of 4.0 and it will be open for projects later in the year. 

Further, it will allow Chief People Officers to join the growing ranks of C-level executives adopting s-commerce, and provides opportunities for a new set of expert service providers hoping to join the nearly 40,000 already using the Global Services Exchange, following blur’s success in marketing, creative, technology and professional services.

With the HR Services category globally forecast to be worth $53.4bn in 2017, this category will provide additional market share for  s-commerce from the $2tn+ global services market, following blur’s success in marketing, creative, technology and professional services.

Philip Letts, blur Group CEO commented:

“This represents is a huge opportunity for disruption with HR Services: a major potential market with many companies looking for outside expertise and support. And for expert search and selection, it’s another segment that has been characterized by a small number of very large providers, whereas better expertise often exists outside this. So we look forward to seeing those large providers join blur’s