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Youth Advocates: Future Of Work Blends Flexibility, Education, Mentoring
As the European Year of Skills came to an end, the education-to-work network StartNet organised an online conference focused on the education of young people and their transition into the workforce. It was hosted in collaboration with Connecting Europe...
Survey: Gender Pay Gap Even Bigger for Freelancers
Despite decades of effort to achieve better pay equity and equal opportunity in the workplace, the gender pay gap remains a complex and ongoing challenge in the United States. This is one of the most pernicious problems in the American economy because it's forcing...
Gig Work And The Black Community
Back in the day, if you had an extra or non-traditional job, it might have been called your “side hustle.” Whether you did hair at the house or fixed cars in the alley, it was money aside from your regular income stream. The upside was that it usually paid cash and...
Tips To Personalize Your Hybrid Work Approach
Remote and hybrid working situations continue to teach us a lot about what effective and efficient collaboration truly looks like. Over the years we’ve been introduced to new technologies and different ways teams can better work together to align and execute on shared...
Microsoft Places AI Assists Hybrid Work
Coordinating teams and in-office days in our new normal of hybrid work is a difficult task, and one that carries a lot of untapped potential for productivity tools. Today Microsoft announced the public preview launch of Places, a new app a couple years in the...
Philadelphia Mayor Ending Remote Work Policy For All Full-Time City Employees
The city of Philadelphia is putting an end to its COVID era remote work policy and requiring all full-time city employees to return to the office five days a week this summer. Mayor Cherelle Parker announced on Monday that employees will begin working in-office...
Here’s What Makes Work Unhealthy
When one of our clients joined the leadership team of an international financial institution based in Germany, there was a standing item on the executive team’s meeting agenda: burnout cases. That was costly from a time perspective, of course, but that they were...
You Need New Skills To Make A Career Pivot
Sometimes you don’t just want a new job, you want a radical career change. Perhaps you’ve been in finance and now want to be an acupuncturist, you’re a marketer eager to lead a startup, or you’re an educator looking to shift into catering and event planning. In...
