Users

2024 was a impactful year for Field Nation, with over 1 million work orders completed on the marketplace! This achievement highlights the remarkable outcomes as a result of field service leaders and independent technicians coming together to get work done.

Demand

The Field Nation marketplace saw a diverse range of service types in 2024. Networking, POTS, and Point-of-Sale emerged as the most in-demand categories, reflecting the critical needs of companies and the expertise of technicians using the platform.

Curious to see more stats that defined Field Nation last year? Explore the full Year in Review now!

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Between inflation pressures and an ongoing labor crunch, the field service industry is a volatile and unpredictable market. In our 2023 Year In Review, we share several key trends found on the Field Nation marketplace that can help service leaders and technicians overcome industry challenges and better prepare for another year of success in field services. Uncover key Field Nation marketplace stats including coverage, popular work types, and more.

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Field Nation offers a seamless workflow with pre-built integrations for your existing systems, enabling greater scale and efficiency for your organization. Enhance your dispatching team’s daily operations by connecting your field service delivery system to the #1 labor marketplace for IT field service.

See how you can transform your dispatch capabilities by enriching your FSM with a Field Nation integration.

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The new year is just around the corner, and the outlook for field services is taking shape! Download our infographic to gain insights into the IT field service outlook for 2024 based on proprietary data from the Field Nation marketplace. Learn about key trends and predictions for the coming year and discover how you can stay ahead of the game.

To help uncover actions you can take to cut costs, boost revenue, and focus on big wins in the new year, we’ve drilled down the data-driven predictions and strategies shared in our recent webinar.

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Despite concerns about inflation and recession, the demand for infrastructure cabling in field services continues to surge, driven by the proliferation of devices and the increasing need for bandwidth. However, the industry is grappling with a significant shortage of skilled cabling technicians, threatening its growth potential.

Gain at-a-glance insights to overcome the talent shortage and meet record demand in our infographic.

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Our recent study, “The State of Independent Contracting in Field Services,” revealed how independent contracting transforms the workforce and creates new opportunities for businesses to attract skilled talent.

While meeting increased demand for skilled labor is a formidable challenge, understanding how to leverage this changing workforce doesn’t have to be. You can download our infographic for the highlights or get your copy of the full report for more insights.

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Summary

2022 was a year of unprecedented growth opportunities and challenges, including supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and inflationary pressures. Download the 2022 year in review to explore how Field Nation helped technicians and businesses thrive despite the turbulence.

• Investigate how we helped technicians and businesses succeed in 2022.
• Gain insights into the latest field service developments by seeing what’s trending on the Field Nation platform.
• Learn about our ongoing investments to optimize the platform experience.

“Technicians completed over 1.1 million work orders through the Field Nation platform in 2022. That’s an 8.5% increase from 2021.”

2022 Year in Review

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It’s no secret that rising costs continue to have a dramatic impact on the field services industry. The price of everything from gas to essential materials has risen, and higher costs can eat into profit margins.

While you can’t control the macro factors driving inflation, you can lessen the pain by understanding the current economic landscape and taking specific actions to combat rising costs. Here are three primary cost drivers and three strategies for mitigating their impact.

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We get it – comparing costs is complicated. That’s why this infographic illustrates two different ways to look at labor cost: from a work order perspective and an annualized perspective.

When comparing the cost of a full-time W2 technician to the cost of putting that work on a 1099 network, many companies incorrectly think the 1099 network is more expensive. In the infographic, we break down in actual dollars and cents why W2 labor is the more expensive option, and bring to light the many cost factors companies often forget to consider.

Ready to see the per work order savings and annual savings you can realize by shifting some of your non-core work to a 1099 network?

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