by dankeelan | Jan 6, 2020 | Gig Workers, Jobs, Management
Readers often ask how I became interested in writing about the freelance revolution. Way back in 2013, I was a partner in a boutique consulting firm RBL Group, working on a human capital strategy for McKesson, the big pharma company. McKesson’s CHRO...
by dankeelan | Jan 2, 2020 | Featured, Gig Workers, Jobs
“All the research shows that the biggest growth segment in the U.S. labor market is freelancers – it’s a segment that has grown at three times the rate of any other since 2014. The estimates are that by 2027, more than half the workforce in the Western world will be...
by dankeelan | Aug 22, 2019 | Featured, Gig Workers, Jobs, U.S. Economy
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) took a shot at companies like Uber and Lyft on Wednesday with a new plan that would make it harder for them to rely on gig workers. Sanders, a presidential candidate, unveiled a wide-ranging “Workplace Democracy” plan to...
by dankeelan | Aug 5, 2019 | Featured, Gig Workers, Jobs
Right now the workplace is undergoing the biggest changes within the past 200 years. Traditional 9-to-5 employment model is getting closer to becoming obsolete. More and more people are realizing that they don’t have to be pinned to a single place of work to earn...
by dankeelan | Jul 31, 2019 | Jobs
Last summer, I wrote about how 57 Million U.S. Workers Are Part Of The Gig Economy. That is a lot of the U.S. employee base basically doing a side hustle of some sort, a part time or maybe even full time gig or project as a freelancer. I think that is a big deal....
by dankeelan | Jul 31, 2019 | Featured, Jobs
Global freelancing platform Upwork announced a sweeping policy change on Tuesday that will impact hundreds of thousands of freelancers — particularly new and/or low-earning users. “Connects,” the virtual tokens freelancers use to submit proposals for...
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