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Survey: 55% of Job-seekers Consider Gig Opps
Talent500 by ANSR has conducted a brand survey to understand the dynamics of the market and trace the anticipated job search patterns in the post-pandemic times. Talent500 surveyed 20,000+ active tech professionals in the market to understand the good, bad, and ugly...
No Way for Concert Industry to Normalize
By all accounts, large gatherings such as concert halls, fan-filled stadiums and performance theaters will be the last venues to reopen. Those precautions have decimated entertainment, both nationally and locally. Cirque du Soleil filed for...
13 M Gig Workers Getting PUA, 41% of Total
Around 12.9 million Americans are collecting unemployment benefits through the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, according to most recent Labor Department data. That program, created by the federal CARES Act relief law enacted in March, extends jobless...
FOUR20 Academy to Offer Cannabis Worker Training
Four20 Academy is taking pre-registration for training offered to workers in the cannabis industry, as well as custom training and certification for Cannabis companies. Initial programs will cover training for individuals working or seeking work at medical marijuana...
Uber Drivers Protest Urging CEO to Stop Funding Anti-worker Effort
A caravan of around 50 Uber and Lyft drivers cruised down a quiet street in San Francisco's ritzy Pacific Heights' neighborhood and parked in front of Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's home. One white van with a "Black Lives Matter" sign draped over the roof blasted Dolly...
Prepping for Future of Work
We are now months into the Covid-19 pandemic, and it has become clear that the virus has unquestionably impacted how people all over the world are living and doing business. Companies continue to actively take precautions, even as businesses begin to open their doors....
Five Keys to Kickstarting Your Full Entrepreneur Potential
As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I'm always surprised by the fact that some never seem to be able to that first startup going, while many others never seem to stop, starting their second or third initiative before the first one is fully hatched. I'm now...
Gig Workers to Companies after BLM statements: ‘Prove it’
Black gig workers are calling out the empty gestures of solidarity and support from the companies they drive, deliver, and work for as so-called independent contractors as the Black Lives Matter movement gains momentum across the U.S. Black workers affiliated with the...
