by dankeelan | Oct 17, 2023 | Featured, Remote Work
Drew Houston, the CEO of the file-storage company Dropbox, is continuing to tout a predominantly remote work culture, even as business leaders increasingly call for their workers to return to the office. He told Fortune in an interview published Sunday...
by dankeelan | Oct 17, 2023 | Featured, Pay, Remote Work
What value would American workers place on the privilege to work from home? The answer: either $4,600 or $6,000 a year, depending on how you do the math. Three years into the remote-work revolution, research increasingly suggests that telework is a commodity, a...
by dankeelan | Oct 17, 2023 | Gig Workers, Healthcare
Shawnika Howell has been a nurse for 13 years, primarily in long-term care, but around the time of the winter 2021 COVID-19 surge, she decided to find some extra work through something new: an app called Clipboard. The app lets nurses and nurse aides book...
by dankeelan | Oct 17, 2023 | Featured, Gig Workers, Insurance
Insurance is vital for gig workers because they lack consistent employer-provided benefits. The gig economy refers to a labor market characterized by the prevalence of short-term contracts or freelance work, as opposed to permanent jobs. In this economy, workers are...
by dankeelan | Oct 10, 2023 | Benefits, Jobs
Pandemic-era childcare subsidies expired on Sept. 30, affecting over 200,000 nationwide childcare providers that depend on those funds to pay their workers. Without the support, over 70,000 centers are at risk of closure, forcing the parents of...
by dankeelan | Oct 10, 2023 | Career, Leadership
There are things you see in yourself that everyone else sees. There are things you see in yourself that nobody else sees. You have a shot at addressing both of these kinds of things if they get in the way. There are things you don’t see in yourself and others also...
by dankeelan | Oct 10, 2023 | Mentoring
How would those dead poet society (or high schoolers) know they liked poetry if Robin Williams as a teacher didn’t demand they stand on a desk? And how would Matt Damon’s Will Hunting ever believe in himself if Williams didn’t pop up again as a...
by dankeelan | Oct 10, 2023 | Cybersecurity, Featured, Remote Work
Recent events have spurred many companies to transition to remote work, which presents new challenges in keeping company data safe. With the rise in remote work comes an increase in the number of cybercriminals launching attacks against remote workers, leading to data...
by dankeelan | Oct 10, 2023 | Hybrid Workplace
Hybrid work may be the new normal for some, but employees say there’s a right way — and a wrong way — to structure in-office policies. Eight in 10 remote-capable employees expect to work either in a hybrid or fully remote environment in the long term,...
by dankeelan | Oct 10, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Future of Work
Although some may feel that AI only came about in the last year, its predecessor, machine learning, has been with us for years. Machine learning and AI have already upended companies and job markets, and they are guaranteed to continue doing so for some time yet. The...
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