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The 9 Best Jobs Programs for Veterans Separating in 2022
With veteran unemployment falling to 3.9% in November 2021, national attention is shifting to veteran underemployment. Veterans are considered underemployed when their skills are not being fully utilized, leaving them struggling to make ends meet or to feel like...
8 Ways We Spend Time at Work Without Working
Work productivity applications are great. But addressing unconscious unproductive tendencies works smarter. So challenge your routines and practices. “Hard work never hurt anyone,” said Mark Twain. “As long as it is observed from a distance.” Does that sound like you?...
In Order to Succeed, You Need to Master the Art of the Pivot
It can take multiple pivots for a good idea to turn into a product. The founders of PÜL began with surfing and ended with a smart cap. Here's how they did it and why it's important to stay focused. I recently spoke with Miles Bowles, founder and chief product officer,...
3 Predictions That Will Instantly Highlight Who Has Good Leadership Skills
There are certain leadership and management behaviors and habits that plague businesses by preventing them from reaching their full potential. Leadership, after all, is about fostering healthy human relationships toward producing great achievements together. And...
How Mentoring Can Build a Diverse Workplace
Conventional wisdom says that it is up to job candidates to sell themselves to an organisation. They need to come prepared – undertaking all the necessary research, anticipating and practicing answers and so forth. The process is largely the same for organisations big...
One in Six Americans Earn Money in Online Gig Work
Sixteen percent of Americans have earned money doing household chores and running errands for other people via online apps and websites, according to the Pew Research Center. If people are younger, non-white and poorer, they are more likely to have done online...
More than One-Third of Gig Workers Feel Unsafe
In a major new report on the state of gig work, 16% of U.S. adults tell Pew Research that they’ve earned money through an online gig platform in the past year. Among those, one in three say it’s become their primary job, and nearly 60% add that the income...
In 2021, Gig Workers Were Forced to Endure ‘Unprecedented Surveillance’
Pa Edrissa Manjang, an Uber driver in the UK, spent a year of his life working for the ride-hailing company before he was abruptly fired by an algorithm. “It wasn’t good at all,” Manjang said in an interview with Worker Info Exchange. “It felt like most of the time...
