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Remote Work Isn’t Hurting Innovation. Work Is.
Employees want to work from home. Their bosses, however, can’t wait to get back to the office. Knowledge workers think being remote makes their jobs better, while managers worry the arrangement could cause the quality of work to suffer. But in scapegoating remote...
Hybrid Work is Here to Stay. Activating Your Hologram May Be the Next Way to Enter a Meeting
Millions of U.S. workers are quitting their jobs in what some are calling the "Great Resignation." Others, such as Kate Lister, president of Global Workplace Analytics, see it as the "Great Reevaluation," as workers seek increased flexibility. Lister says during this...
DoorDash Couriers Struggle to Secure COVID Sick Pay, Get Back to Work during Omicron Surge
A COVID-assistance policy at DoorDash Inc is frustrating some couriers who told Reuters the food-delivery company sidelined them for as long as a month while infections caused by the Omicron variant of the coronavirus flared, costing them much needed income. DoorDash...
Job Crafting Can Help Digital Gig Workers Build Resilience
By 2023, the global gig economy — that is, short-term, project-based work, including both online white collar work on platforms such as 99designs and offline service work on platforms such as Uber — is expected to be a $455 billion industry. Eleven percent of workers...
How Your Gig Work Income Could Take a Hit with New Tax Rules for Payment Apps
If you are one of the millions of Americans who makes an income through gig work or a side hustle, you probably get paid through an app like Venmo or PayPal or Cash App. They make it easy to exchange money for services and products - no muss, no fuss - until now....
‘Uber for Nurses?’: Initiative Targets Healthcare for a ‘Gig Work’ Law
Healthcare, the nation’s fastest-growing industry, could be next in the push for laws to expand gig work. A measure filed this week with the California attorney general’s office seeks to ask the state’s voters in November to classify nurses, dental hygienists,...
Working as a Freelancer? These 10 Tech Skills Could Get You Work Faster
The freelancer market is seeing an uplift as employers seek out independent professionals to fill talent gaps, according to freelancer platform Upwork. Upwork's latest Freelance Forward Economist report found that the share of US workers who classify as permanent...
Three Things That Bother Employees Most About Their Jobs
What you think might be bothering your employees—or are the most important for retaining or recruiting them—may not be in sync with their frustrations or priorities and could create a crisis at your company or organization. That’s why business...
