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Study: Skilled Trades Shortages Threaten $1 Trillion Annual Loss

A large shortage of workers to fill millions of skilled trades jobs could result in $1 trillion in economic losses annually, according to new research from JLL. The commercial real estate services company revealed Tuesday that by 2030, an estimated 2.1 million skilled...

You Can’t Be Disconnected At Home And Magically Connected At Work

Here’s the story most leaders carry: I’m different at work. I’m on. I’m focused. Whatever is going on at home stays at home. I understand the appeal. It feels like discipline. Like professionalism. Like exactly the kind of thing a high performer should be able to do....

Paying Workers To Come In — Instead Of Mandating RTO

Employees at Superhuman, which offers AI assistant apps including Grammarly, dug in their heels when a two-day in-office mandate was introduced last April. It was met with "negative energy and sentiment," chief people officer Kenny Mendes told Business Insider. So,...

The Future Of Engineering Is Hybrid

The future of engineering will not be defined by AI alone. It will be defined by how humans and AI work together. AI is a human-created technology. It becomes valuable when paired with domain knowledge, judgment and accountability. Humans with AI can do more than AI...

Healthcare Staffing: Newest Area of Gig Expansion

Aug 25, 2020 | Healthcare, Jobs

A recent article in McKnight's Long-Term Care News, addressed the hand-in-glove fit for nurses to be the next sector added to the GIG economy. They said: "The traditional healthcare staffing model isn't working. It's inefficient and expensive for facilities, burning...

Seniors Represent Growing Portion of Gig Workers in Florida

Aug 25, 2020 | Age, Featured, Gig Workers

While many seniors initially stayed home in March and April as shelter-in-place mandates rolled out across the state, others have returned to their jobs during the pandemic in order to pay the bills. “I’m the kind of person I take life as it goes. I believe you’re...

California’s Gig Worker Ballot Measure: What’s at Stake

Aug 25, 2020 | California, Featured, Gig Workers

After a California appeals court on Thursday temporarily halted a law requiring the reclassification of rideshare drivers of Uber and Lyft as employees, the decision over gig worker benefits and pay will likely be left to voters. The two San Francisco-based companies...

Creating a Gig Economy for Out-of-Work Pilots — Flying Drones Instead of Planes

Aug 25, 2020 | Entrepreneurs, Jobs

With mass layoffs at US air carriers expected this fall, airline pilots like Michelle Bishop are anticipating the unwelcome reality that pilots like herself may soon be left without stable work. "I'm just trying to fly as much as I can, while I can, because I love...

Taxes and the Gig Economy

Aug 25, 2020 | Finance, Gig Workers, Tips

Tax Notes senior reporter Paul Jones talks with Richard C. Auxier, senior policy associate at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, about tax issues raised by the gig economy and how policymakers are working to address them. Read and Listen to the Interview From...

Organizing Labor in an Era of Temporary Work and the Gig Economy

Aug 25, 2020 | Gig Workers, U.S. Economy, Unions

Javier Morillo spent 14 years as president of Service Employees International Union Local 26 in Minnesota. The union represents janitors, security officers, airport workers, window washers and others in the property services industry. Morillo is now a fellow at the...

Honoring and Supporting Gig Workers Nationwide

Aug 21, 2020 | Benefits, Featured, Gig Workers, U.S. Economy

Sunday, August 16, 2020 was the second National Independent Worker Day. This national holiday honors the tens of millions of independent workers, contractors, consultants, freelancers, self-employed, gig workers, and small business owners in America who choose to...

Tips for Creating Your Startup During the Pandemic

Aug 18, 2020 | Start Up, Tips

Studies show that most start-up businesses don’t make it past the five-year mark. That does not even account for earthshaking events like the 2020 pandemic, which has shuttered hundreds of thousands of businesses. According to Yelp, 55% of companies that are included...

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