by dankeelan | Mar 1, 2022 | Featured, Gig Workers, Technology
Bill Detwiler talks with Saty Bahadur, chief technology officer at Upwork, about what it takes to be successful as a freelance software developer or IT professional. What’s it take to be successful as a freelance developer or IT professional? That’s what we are going...
by dankeelan | Mar 1, 2022 | Featured, Gig Workers, Pay
The Ontario government is set to introduce what it says is first-of-its-kind legislation that would extend the province’s minimum wage to gig workers. The Working for Workers Act is aimed at adding protection for app-based workers like Uber and Lyft...
by dankeelan | Mar 1, 2022 | Featured, Gig Workers, U.S. Economy, Unions
A coalition of labor groups pushing to make gig workers count as employees in Massachusetts has renamed their campaign and begun hiring staff that will try to fight some of the giants of the tech world on multiple fronts. But most gig workers in Massachusetts...
by dankeelan | Mar 1, 2022 | Featured, Gig Workers
Drivers for Singapore’s food delivery and ride-hailing companies are often working almost 60 hours a week, a survey found, underscoring the lack of protections for gig workers in the city-state. About 29% of drivers work more than 59 hours a week, according to a...
by dankeelan | Mar 1, 2022 | Future of Work, Gig Workers
As the world of technology advances, we also see significant changes in the way people use it to improve their lives. One such change is extremely evident in the way people relate to their workplace and their expectations from employers and collaborators everywhere....
by dankeelan | Feb 22, 2022 | Gig Workers, Remote Work
The pandemic may have changed a lot of things for the workplace, but none was more significant than remote working. As millions of employees shifted from the office to their homes, remote roles across industries started to grow. A few years into the pandemic, remote...
by dankeelan | Feb 22, 2022 | Benefits
As the seismic shifts caused by the Great Resignation continue to reverberate across the workforce, employees everywhere are looking to make a change motivated primarily by companies offering better compensation, including benefits. Record numbers of workers left...
by dankeelan | Feb 22, 2022 | Featured, Future of Work, Jobs, U.S. Economy
Public health crises past and present have caused labor shortages that ripped out and reworked the fabric of society. The Great Plague liberated serfs, the Spanish Flu brought women to the workplace, and COVID-19 is empowering modern employees to redefine work-life...
by dankeelan | Feb 22, 2022 | Featured, Hybrid Workplace, Management, Remote Work
The pandemic forced leaders to reconcile with the need for effective hybrid and remote team management strategies, including in performance evaluations. Research has shown the benefits of moving away from large-scale quarterly or annual performance reviews. Instead,...
by dankeelan | Feb 22, 2022 | Leadership
“Curiosity killed the cat.” It’s time to turn this curious saying on its head. In leadership terms anyway. A curious leader isn’t one that micromanages their people, having to know everything and have a finger in every pie, so to speak....
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