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881,000 Apply for Unemployment as Layoffs Remain Elevated
In addition to the laid-off people who applied last week for state benefits, 759,000 others sought jobless aid under a new program that has made self-employed and gig workers eligible for the first time. That figure isn’t adjusted for seasonal trends, so it’s reported...
10 Sites to Help You Find Work
Some 13 million people have remained jobless since mid-March, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But that's not the only fundamental and immediate shift in the labor market: At the same time, companies that can go remote are going remote for the foreseeable...
Newsom: Freelance Journalists Exempt from 2019 Labor Law
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law Friday that exempts freelance journalists and a handful of other professions from a 2019 landmark labor law meant to protect gig workers. While the original law was meant to benefit workers, freelance...
Mackinac Island Offers Vacation with Remote Work and School Options
If you’ve got school-aged children at home, the weeks after school starts each fall traditionally don’t hold much hope for sneaking away for a mid-week vacation, even though warm temperatures and sunshine are still in ample supply. But this year, as more parents are...
Digital Nomads: the Future of Remote Life?
With much of the professional world shifting to remote work and widespread acceptance of the concept among previously skeptical corporate management, the traditional idea of work-life balance is being pushed in new directions, including a concept of remote...
How Gig Workers are Surviving the Pandemic
Independent workers have come under new pressure this year as the coronavirus and changing consumer habits have dramatically altered their work lives. CNBC Make It’s Karen Gilchrist speaks to three freelancers who are finding new ways of working. See Video at CNBC...
When Should You Walk Away?
Newcomers to the freelance world often face challenges they’ve never confronted. One came to light recently when an acquaintance told me about a gig job of hers.© Dreamstime/TNS There are many things to consider before walking away from a job. Her client had suggested...
Where The Gig Economy Went Wrong
Around the economic recession of 2008 as so many lost their jobs and were faced with financial hardships and difficult decisions, an alternative economic model emerged. It didn’t really have a name at the time, but in the years since then we’ve come to know it as the...
