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Remote Work Practices to Maintain When Returning to the Office
When businesses shuttered across the country back in March, it wasn’t clear when employees would be headed back into the office, if ever. While the dust is still far from settled, many companies are starting to prepare for eventual re-openings of the...
Remote Work Allows Some to Relocate Ahead of Retirement
If you are thinking of relocating when you retire, there are several things to consider before you make the move. One of them may now be whether you should do it before you leave the workforce. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, many Americans are working...
Biden Allies Demand Help for Gig Workers
Activists are urging Joe Biden to turn his focus to a recovery plan for the gig economy, saying there's a moral and political imperative to help Americans who rely on short-term, on-demand contract jobs for their livelihoods. Why it matters: "You're missing voters...
Promise and Pitfalls of the Gig Economy
860,000 Americans filed for unemployment insurance again in September, many of them gig workers driving for Uber and Lyft or finding work via TaskRabbit, PostMates, or other app-based services. The promise of the gig economy was flexibility and autonomy, but those...
The Gig Economy’s Role in the Future of Healthcare
One unmistakable sign of healthcare’s influence are the investments companies like Apple, Google, Alibaba, Amazon, and others have made in the space. They’ve become giants largely based on their ability to understand human behavior and influence our daily...
Amazon Recruits Gig Workers to Deliver Whole Foods Orders
With the gig economy continuing to grow but the COVID-19 pandemic cutting into wages, gig workers looking for work might want to pay Whole Foods a visit. Amazon is now recruiting contract workers to both shop for and deliver groceries for Whole Foods Market customers...
Millions of Gig Workers Fear Unemployment Benefits Will End
According to the Labor Department's latest tally, more than 14 million people were collecting benefits under the new program at the end of August. That's more than were collecting regular unemployment benefits. "Number one, that tells me that too few people...
Cleveland: Website Connects Nonprofits to Freelancers
Think of it like a job matchmaker — connecting nonprofits in need of freelancers and contractors in Cleveland. Trialogue INC was started by Tom Sarago during the coronavirus pandemic. “There were more people being furloughed, more people being laid off....
