by dankeelan | Dec 9, 2025 | Featured, Future of Work, Gen Z
As Generation Z—those born between 1997 and 2012—enters the workforce in growing numbers, Canadian employers are encountering a cohort whose expectations and behaviors signal a fundamental shift from current norms. Unlike previous generations, Gen Z brings pragmatic...
by dankeelan | Dec 2, 2025 | Featured, U.S. Economy
A big reason the term is popping up so often is that it helps explain an unusually muddy and convoluted period for the US economy. Growth appears solid, yet hiring is sluggish, and the unemployment rate has ticked up. Overall, consumer spending is still rising, but...
by dankeelan | Dec 2, 2025 | Cybersecurity, Featured, Insurance
For much of the past five years, the biggest worry for many commercial insurance clients has been brutally tangible: the soaring cost of rebuilding. Conversations were dominated by materials inflation, labour shortages and construction delays after COVID-19. Today,...
by dankeelan | Dec 2, 2025 | Featured, Gig Workers
According to a poll of over 1,020 owners by parts company American Trucks, fully 70 percent of pickup owners said they’d begun using their vehicles for side hustles or gig work over the past year. Both demand for their services and the income truck owners generated...
by dankeelan | Dec 2, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Leadership
When a CEO tells his team, “AI is coming for your jobs, even mine,” you pay attention. It is rare to hear that level of blunt honesty from any leader, let alone the head of one of the world’s largest freelance platforms. Yet this is exactly how...
by dankeelan | Nov 18, 2025 | Featured, Gig Workers, U.S. Economy
A new Goldman Sachs analysis found that platform-based gig work opportunities — which include major tech players like Uber (UBER), DoorDash (DASH), and Instacart (CART) — are holding up as traditional payroll growth cools. About 20% of people who lost pay, lost a job,...
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