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Successfully Managing Your Remote Workforce
The way you manage a remote workforce will have long-term implications for your business and its growth potential. If you do a poor job, morale and productivity will suffer; if you're successful, a remote workforce can build loyalty and boost engagement. Here are some...
Covid Pivotal in Changing Game for Gig Workers
As the world economy plunged into a sharp downturn because of Covid, organisations were faced with difficult choices from business models to maintaining operations to sustenance of their workforce. Quick but difficult decisions had to be taken. While some...
Opinion: Gig Workers Need Protection More Than Ever
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have come to rely more and more on “gig” workers to supply us with our day-to-day needs. When restaurants were forced to shut their doors and grocery stores saw severe restrictions, drivers for companies like GrubHub and...
Took Early Social Security During COVID and Regret It? You Could Get a Do-Over
Social Security offers the choice to take the benefit as early as age 62 —an option that may appeal to more older Americans given high rates of unemployment in the pandemic. But some people may regret that decision if they resume working as the economy improves....
Freelancing: A Viable Career Choice
It’s time to give freelance workers the credit they deserve. Often looked at as not a “real” occupation, freelance work can seem abstract for some people, when it’s actually a very viable career choice. Freelancers are proving their working model is one that is only...
How to Save for Retirement as a Freelancer
Running a business or being self-employed means a great deal of freedom, but with that freedom comes responsibility. And one of the most important responsibilities is to make sure that you are properly saving for retirement. You cannot just count on your employer to...
Haircare Company Launches Initiative To Support Black-Owned Businesses
Actress and entrepreneur Gabrielle Union is on a mission to ensure that Black-owned businesses and organizations have the support and resources needed to make it through the pandemic. Union recently unveiled a new initiative through her Flawless by...
States Deploy AI to Stop Unemployment Fraud
States are using artificial intelligence and other high-tech tools to identify and deny billions of dollars in fraudulent claims as they deal with a surge in Covid-19-related unemployment. “These benefit programs are clearly very outmanned and outgunned,”...
