by dankeelan | Mar 15, 2022 | Featured, Future of Work, Skilled Trades
Florida has a workforce crisis and it’s impacting Florida’s employers and job seekers in dramatic and negative ways, and yet it’s an opportunity business leaders should leverage. Pre-COVID, despite Florida creating 1 in every 11 new U.S. jobs (2015-2020), the number...
by dankeelan | Mar 8, 2022 | Featured, Gig Workers, Stories
Here’s everything I loved, hated, and learned in my time as a freelancer: I loved how flexible my working hours were. As a freelancer, I mostly stuck to traditional work hours so my free time lined up with when my partner and friends were also off. But knowing...
by dankeelan | Mar 8, 2022 | Featured, Future of Work
How we work is rapidly evolving as more companies adopt hybrid and remote work. Google, for instance, said this month that it is bringing back its employees in a hybrid fashion in April, while Twitter said it will open offices in March but employees can choose to work...
by dankeelan | Mar 8, 2022 | Featured, Gig Workers, Technology
When Arina, a 22-year-old illustrator in Russia, first started using the freelance work platform Upwork last year, it changed her life. “It was like opening a door into another world for me,” she said, speaking on the condition that her last name not be used out of...
by dankeelan | Mar 8, 2022 | Featured, Gig Workers, Women
Since February 2020, 1.1 million women who left the labor force have yet to return, reported the Washington Post. Gayle Kaufman, a professor of sociology and gender and sexuality studies at Davidson College, said about the recent United States jobs reports, “I...
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...
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