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Best Industries to Specialize in as a Freelance Writer
Article writing and copywriting are lucrative career choices for writers. If you have a niche subject area, the earning potential could be significantly higher. But which areas is it worth specializing in to win the best and most lucrative commissions? More From...
How Business Owners Can Help Homeless Veterans Through Employment
First and foremost, employers can reserve seats for veterans, meaning they can put aside a certain number of positions for veterans alone. Doing so will ensure veterans are getting the piece of mind that they would only have to struggle to get one of the reserved...
Tired of Trying to Get Your People to Wear More Hats?
I was building my first entrepreneurial company, a mission-driven, tech-powered healthcare startup. I joined the founder as his first full-time hire. He had previously helped run a much larger company, had huge ideas, and was looking for a place to build everything he...
Gig Economy Can Be Win-Win Situation
Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, the traditional workplace, whose foundations go back to the 1940s, has gone through some pretty striking changes, with everyone wondering about what will unfold to replace the nine-to-five jobs that we are familiar with. The...
Reimagining Gender Equality in the Workplace
The FT's Women in Business Forum hears Gill Whitty-Collins tell the FT's Brooke Masters why gender equality is key to building stronger businesses and societies. Watch Here
Career Advice I Wish Someone Told Me in My 20s
The transition from your 20s into your 30s is a major one. For many of us, the decisions we make in those pivotal years end up defining our trajectory throughout the rest of our careers. As I observe my friends navigating this shift, I can’t help but reflect on the...
Instacart Workers Consider Walk-Off
Gig Workers Collective, a grassroots organization fighting for better treatment of independent contractors, has announced planning for a walk off for Instacart shoppers on October 16. The group says shoppers will cease work until Instacart meets five demands, which...
Opinion: Down with the Boss, Up With the Gig Worker!
Napoleon didn’t deride the English as “a nation of shopkeepers,” although that phrase is commonly attributed to him. In fact, it was Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac, a French revolutionary who used it when attacking the achievements of British Prime Minister William Pitt,...
