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Building Resilience for Gig Workers
In 2018, the global gig economy generated $204 billion in gross volume, with transportation‑based services, such as ride‑sharing, taking the share of the cake at 58%. This economy was projected to grow by a 17% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) leading to a gross...
Americans Work Too Damn Much
Workers in the United States have lost control of perhaps the most important aspect of their lives: their time. Getting that time back is crucial — for workers’ well-being, for democracy, and for weakening the tyrannical power of the boss. It wasn’t supposed to be...
Remote Learning is Here to Stay — Can We Make It Better?
ParentsParents everywhere have had to quickly become experts in virtual learning and remote classrooms as the pandemic has shut down schools around the country — and the results haven’t been universally positive. But there are some things that remote learning does...
Dropbox Shifts Focus to Remote Work with Spaces Update
Today, the company announced broad changes to Dropbox Spaces, the product introduced last year, to make it a collaboration and project management tool designed with these new requirements in mind. Spaces connects to other tools like your calendar, people directory,...
How COVID-19 Will Change Aging and Retirement
As the pandemic wreaks havoc on our mental and physical health, it is also quietly reshaping how Americans will face retirement and old age in the years to come. The virus is bringing sweeping change, mainly by “accelerating developments already under way," says...
Lyft Launched Super PAC to Prevent Illinois Gig Workers from Getting Employee Benefits
The country’s two largest transportation network companies – Lyft and Uber – and other “gig” driving and delivery businesses are likely going to try and change Illinois law to create a new classification of workers. On top of making transportation in cities worse in...
Freelance-Worker Banking App Lili Sees 700% Boost During Pandemic
Many businesses have benefited from the digital shift and lifestyle changes brought on by the coronavirus, but few have seen the kind of growth that the freelancer-banking app Lili has since the traditional economy went dark in March. “We have seen a huge...
Freelance Childcare: Why We Need To Solve This Problem Made Worse By Covid-19
“The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the inextricable link between childcare and the economy — and it's pushing businesses to confront the cost of working parents' unpaid side gig.” Side gig, indeed. Childcare has been a significant ongoing topic in my family:...
