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A 59-hour Week Common for Singapore Gig Workers
Drivers for Singapore’s food delivery and ride-hailing companies are often working almost 60 hours a week, a survey found, underscoring the lack of protections for gig workers in the city-state. About 29% of drivers work more than 59 hours a week, according to a...
Gig Economy Statistics and Trends 2022
As the world of technology advances, we also see significant changes in the way people use it to improve their lives. One such change is extremely evident in the way people relate to their workplace and their expectations from employers and collaborators everywhere....
6 Challenges Working as a Remote Freelancer and How to Overcome Them
The pandemic may have changed a lot of things for the workplace, but none was more significant than remote working. As millions of employees shifted from the office to their homes, remote roles across industries started to grow. A few years into the pandemic, remote...
How Leaders Should Think About Employee Benefits
As the seismic shifts caused by the Great Resignation continue to reverberate across the workforce, employees everywhere are looking to make a change motivated primarily by companies offering better compensation, including benefits. Record numbers of workers left...
Sixty-one Percent of Workers are Seeking or Planning to Seek New Jobs
Public health crises past and present have caused labor shortages that ripped out and reworked the fabric of society. The Great Plague liberated serfs, the Spanish Flu brought women to the workplace, and COVID-19 is empowering modern employees to redefine work-life...
Hybrid and Remote Team Management Through Revising Performance Evaluations
The pandemic forced leaders to reconcile with the need for effective hybrid and remote team management strategies, including in performance evaluations. Research has shown the benefits of moving away from large-scale quarterly or annual performance reviews. Instead,...
How Curious Leaders Keep Your Business Agile
"Curiosity killed the cat." It’s time to turn this curious saying on its head. In leadership terms anyway. A curious leader isn’t one that micromanages their people, having to know everything and have a finger in every pie, so to speak. It is not a...
Gig Companies Are Disguising Exploitation as Social Justice
In November 2020, the people of California voted to pass Proposition 22, which classified workers for rideshare and delivery companies as independent contractors instead of employees. The ballot measure was a direct response to the California State Legislature...
