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As the U.S. workforce continues to migrate from traditional onsite employment locations to jobs as remote and contract employees, the gig economy has emerged as a new, flexible and short-term type of work. Recent statistics show roughly a third of US workers are part...
Upwork CTO Shares Advice for IT Pros Considering a Freelance Gig
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...
Ontario to Introduce ‘Historic’ Legislation to Give Gig Workers $15 Minimum Wage
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...
Organized Labor Regroups in Battle Against Gig-economy Giants
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 don't...
A 59-hour Week Common for Singapore 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...
Gig Economy Statistics and Trends 2022
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....
6 Challenges Working as a Remote Freelancer and How to Overcome Them
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...
How Leaders Should Think About Employee 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...
