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Facebook Takes On TaskRabbit to Book Gig Workers
The social media giant is looking to build a services feature that connects gig workers with users looking for home repair or freelance jobs, The Information reported. The company is forming a team focused on this new initiative, but Facebook could decide to...
COVID-19: Lasting Impact on Future of Work
451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, shares the 2021 outlook on key segments within the industry, highlighting lasting impact of COVID-19. The pandemic is moving digital technology strategy into an even more central position for many...
Why Mentoring Should Be Your New Year’s Resolution
Mentoring has some amazing career benefits, for both mentor and mentee. While the world hopes we see some return to normalcy in 2021, it is likely that the workplace restrictions we have been in will continue for some time longer, and possible that the workplace has...
Self-sabotage: Good for Your Career?
We’re about to enter that New Years’ phase of the year when we set big scary goals for ourselves, and then (more often than we’d like to admit) we don’t follow through. After we “fail,” we succumb to negative self-talk and we beat ourselves up for not getting in...
The Future of Leadership: Managing Hybrid Teams
In places around the world where Covid-19 is substantially under control—such as in Australia, Taiwan, and Singapore—governments and companies are allowing, and even encouraging, people to head back to the office. Once vaccines become widely available, many companies...
Identify Your Team’s Remote Work Style
From an abundance of communication to uninterrupted blocks of alone time, we all have certain ways we like to get things done. When everyone is in the office, it can be easy to identify an employee’s style by observing their behavior. With remote working arrangements,...
Top 10 home trends for 2021
The top home trends predicted for 2021 — a permanent home office and resort-style living, indoors and out — are directly connected to needs we discovered while staying put during the coronavirus pandemic. Researchers at the real estate marketplace Zillow came up with...
Gig Apps Keeping Working Through Pandemic
America’s job market was firing on all cylinders, until suddenly it wasn’t. Now it’s 10 months gone to COVID — along with a few million jobs — and folks are looking for work. Smartphone apps are the new office headhunters, filling spots on the fly in ways that are to...
