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Survey: Disconnect Between Employees and Companies on Remote Work Policies
While companies push to return to their offices, employees would rather stay at home, according to a new global survey from Insider. This gap between companies and employees shows up when it comes to who makes decisions about working models, who is...
U.S. Job Growth Slows; Unemployment Rate Plunges to 4.2%
U.S. employment growth slowed considerably in November amid job losses at retailers and in local government education, but the unemployment rate plunged to a 21-month low of 4.2%, suggesting the labor market was rapidly tightening. The...
How To Start a Consulting Startup without the Consulting Background
I recently received a message from a client who is a senior executive in a non-consulting professional services sector. He informed me that he wants to transition to becoming a management consultant. He was struggling to know what to do, what to be known for and how...
How the Gig Economy is Affecting Women
The gig economy is a growing trend for anyone hoping to control their schedule or make a little extra money, and more than ever, women are seizing the opportunities. For example, the number of women earning on the Uber app has increased nearly 80% since the beginning...
Study: Most Gig Economy Workers Have Been Injured at Work
A study of 1,000 gig economy workers found that of the 59 per cent who have been injured at work, 85 per cent were unable to work for an average of five weeks. But 60 per cent claim this was unpaid, with more than one in 10 admitting they should have taken time off...
Why the Resurgence of Organized Labor Hasn’t Helped Gig Workers
On October 16, an unknown number of drivers for grocery delivery service Instacart went on strike. These shoppers, as Instacart calls its independent contractors, vowed to forgo logging onto the app that provides their dispatches. Other drivers who couldn’t afford to...
The Benefits of a Four-Day Workweek
When people talk about the future of work they usually talk about how machines and automation will impact the workforce. But there’s a different, more holistic conversation also evolving: the idea that the future of work should be good for workers, and not just good...
Work Without the Worker
"Will we be retired -- or unemployed?" the leader of a futurist conference asked in 2007 while envisioning a world filled with AIs possessed of superhuman intelligence. More recent -- and more restrained -- researchers such as Kate Darling have argued that our best...
