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The Future of Work: Not the Office or Home
more than one-third of all remote hours are now spent in a location other than the home. The now-common term “work from home” belies an important phenomenon in today’s economy: many people, when given the option to work remotely, are actually working from somewhere...
This CEO’s Remote Work Policy Is Only 10 Words
As employers and business leaders everywhere grapple with employee preferences on remote work, they might take a page out of Gravity CEO Dan Price's playbook. When Price recently polled employees to find out where they wanted to...
Gig Workers and Self-employed Need Two Years of Consistent Income for a Good Mortgage Rate
Gurupkar Gill has a steady job teaching English and tutoring international students. The 29-year-old chooses to flesh out his 30-hour workweek with gig work, because he enjoys the flexibility and relative intellectual ease. A Toronto native, he hasn’t yet ventured...
Managing Risk as a Gig Worker During Covid
While the early months of the pandemic saw an emphasis placed on the contributions made by previously under-appreciated workers, from grocery store staff to nurses, refuge collectors to delivery drivers. There is a sense that such enthusiasm has waned as the pandemic...
5 Leadership Secrets for Next-level Business Growth
Stuck. Frustrated. Leveling off. These are words I’ve heard business owners and leaders use to describe how their companies’ growth has slowed or even stopped, despite their best efforts. In most cases this is good news, because if there was growth before, then...
5M People Moved to a New Area Since 2020 due to Remote Work
Since the start of the pandemic, nearly 5 million people in the US, or 2.4% of all Americans, are estimated to have moved to a new location as a result of remote work's location flexibility. "For the first time, remote work allowed many people across the country to...
Remote Work Has Opened the Door to a New Approach to Hiring
Imagine a consultant telling a C-level executive in 2019 that huge swaths of their company could transition to remote work with only a few days’ notice, they would experience a productivity boost after an adjustment period, and many of those workers would not want to...
Australia: Business Baulks at Victorian Plan for Five Days of Sick Leave for Casuals
Unions have welcomed a trial that will see 150,000 casual workers receive leave at the minimum wage. About 150,000 Victorian casual workers will be eligible for five days’ paid sick and carer’s leave each year as part of a $246m Australian-first trial to tackle the...
