Microtasking and the Gig Economy

Global tech giant Microsoft is currently undertaking a rather interesting experiment. They are inserting small word document jobs into people’s Facebook feeds, letting them get smaller portions of work done while taking time off from their major tasks. They are...

Glue for the High-skill Gig Economy

You have probably seen the “help wanted” signs all over town and read the headlines about the shortage of employees across the United States right now. My colleague and co-author, Anthony Klotz, an associate professor of management at Texas A&M University, has...

Harvard Work Guru on Jobs of the Future in U.S.

What will the future of work look like post pandemic? That is the million-dollar question, according to Rachel Lipson, founding project director of Project on Workforce at Harvard University’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy. She doesn’t have the...