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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...

California Gig Worker Law to be Decided this Week

Sep 9, 2019 | Featured, Gig Workers

All eyes are on California this week as lawmakers face a final vote on Assembly Bill 5. It would reclassify many gig workers as employees, opening the door to guaranteed benefits and protections like health care, workers’ compensation and the right to form a union....

Sanders Targets Gig Economy in Labor Plan

Aug 22, 2019 | Featured, Gig Workers, Jobs, U.S. Economy

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) took a shot at companies like Uber and Lyft on Wednesday with a new plan that would make it harder for them to rely on gig workers. Sanders, a presidential candidate, unveiled a wide-ranging “Workplace Democracy” plan to...

How The Gig Economy Is Reshaping Career Options For Soon-To-Be Graduates

Aug 5, 2019 | Featured, Gig Workers, Jobs

Right now the workplace is undergoing the biggest changes within the past 200 years. Traditional 9-to-5 employment model is getting closer to becoming obsolete. More and more people are realizing that they don’t have to be pinned to a single place of work to earn...

Adaptive Workforces Hire Gig Workers Across Departments

Jul 31, 2019 | Gig Workers

Forrester's report calls out that automation does not simply require increased investment in technology, but also serious investments in workers' development and, potentially, management re-structuring. However, workers and managers don't always share this...

When Gig Workers Want Benefits, Should You Offer Them?

Jul 31, 2019 | Benefits, Featured, Gig Workers

Last December, when Google's temporary, vendor and contract workers demanded benefits and better communication, the media took notice. Since then, and given the rise in the gig economy and a tight labor market, employers are asking if they should offer more...

Looking For A Side Hustle Or Freelance Gig? Check Out These Sites

Jul 31, 2019 | Jobs

Last summer, I wrote about how 57 Million U.S. Workers Are Part Of The Gig Economy. That is a lot of the U.S. employee base basically doing a side hustle of some sort, a part time or maybe even full time gig or project as a freelancer. I think that is a big deal....

Upwork to Charge Freelancers to Bid on Jobs

Jul 31, 2019 | Featured, Jobs

Global freelancing platform Upwork announced a sweeping policy change on Tuesday that will impact hundreds of thousands of freelancers -- particularly new and/or low-earning users. “Connects,” the virtual tokens freelancers use to submit proposals for jobs,...

The Future of Work in an Expanding Gig Economy

Jul 31, 2019 | Gig Workers, U.S. Economy

The future of work is so uncertain that perhaps the only possible job security exists for the person who can credibly claim to be an expert on the future of work. Nevertheless, there are two trends purported experts are reasonably certain about: (1) continued growth...

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