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The Year ‘Work’ Changed
2020 will undoubtedly be remembered as the year of the pandemic. Covid-19 caused careers to careen and the abrupt changes that were thrust on an unsuspecting world had a huge socio-cultural impact. People were confined indoors, businesses shut shop ... Read more at:...
3 Ways to Succeed in Marketing in the Modern Era
Since the proliferation of online advertising, marketing has become a staple of any good business plan. While not all marketing strategies depend on Internet ads, they do represent a large portion of online promotion and marketing...
Cyber Threats: What We Learned
Goodbye, 2020 — and good riddance, right? Most of us don’t want to take too much from this year into the next — but let’s make an exception for what we learned about security in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021 after all, more enterprises will...
How Remote Work is Changing Society
With millions of Americans moving to working remotely in 2020, the work landscape has changed dramatically. And with that, so too has the perception of remote work as the benefits for employers and employees alike have come to light. Having a choice of work...
Washington State to Spend $54M to Help Gig, Self-employed Workers
Washington state will spend $54 million to provide one-time payments to nearly 100,000 gig and self-employed workers cut off from unemployment benefits because of the impasse over the federal COVID-19 relief and spending bill. Gov. Jay Inslee announced Sunday that the...
How the Pandemic Turned an Introvert into a Voice for Gig Workers
The coronavirus pandemic drove many people to recognize gig work as "essential" for the first time, but the crisis also revealed the stark disparities between jobs that come with security and benefits and gig work, which does not. And Solis, the introvert, became a...
Grubhub Gig Workers React Angrily to Change in Tipping Policy
California-based workers for food delivery app Grubhub have reacted angrily to changes to the platform which they say discourage tipping, saying they would wipe out the supposed benefits of new gig worker rules in the state. Last month, California passed Proposition...
Uber and Lyft’s Gig Work Law Could Expand Beyond California
IN NOVEMBER, GIG companies including Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and Instacart helped pass California’s Proposition 22, effectively writing their own labor law. Now the companies plan to bring similar legislation elsewhere. Last month, the...
