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Workers with Disabilities Seek Opportunity to Shine in Jobs
As employers struggle to fill job openings, they might look to workers like Amy Espinosa. Espinosa works on a cleaning crew through the Arc Erie County New York. She was part of a team keeping the Broadway Market looking tidy during the busy Easter season, and is now...
How Startups Can Navigate the Ins and Outs of Business Expenses
For startups and small businesses, saving money is always crucial—and in 2022, that’s more true than ever. With rising inflation, continuing supply chain issues and increasing labor shortages, it’s important to ensure that your expenses stay manageable. Here is a look...
How to Negotiate Your First Salary
As millions of new college grads enter the job market, some may have certain ideas of what their first offers could look like. Undergrads expect to make an annual salary of $103,880 one year after graduation, according to a March 2022 Real Estate Witch...
Developing the Most In-Demand Skills for the Future of Work
Artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, automation – as well as less technologically-driven disruptions such as pandemics – mean the way our children and grandchildren are working will look very different to how we work today. We don’t even have to look that far ahead...
Remote Work or Hybrid? Why Employers Have Changed Their Minds
Employers are "abandoning remote working" in favour of hybrid models in an effort to retain valuable staff and ensure junior team members have better opportunities to learn and progress, say the findings of a new report. Robert Half's Demand for Tech Talent...
Leaders Offering Hybrid Work Should Practice What They Preach
When the Covid-19 pandemic forced us to close our offices in March 2020, I always assumed it would be temporary. Despite having a relatively small 40-person team at that time, our San Francisco office was a collaborative haven - a place I could consistently go for...
Rising Food and Fuel Costs Making Gig Work Unsustainable
Workers in India, Argentina, and South Africa say that they are struggling to make ends meet. In March, ride-hailing driver Charles Mayati joined hundreds of other South African drivers in a three-day strike. In Durban and Johannesburg, drivers logged off the...
Massachusetts Court Shuts Down Gig Work Ballot Measure
The top court in Massachusetts blocked a ballot question Tuesday to continue classifying Uber and Lyft drivers as independent contractors, bringing an abrupt end to what was shaping up to be the most fraught and expensive ballot battle in the state. The...
