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Going Freelance? Here’s How to (Mentally) Make the Move
Going freelance is no doubt an anxiety-inducing decision: You have to adjust to a new lifestyle that doesn’t include structure or guaranteed income and might, at first, feel lonely (no more tea-spilling cubemates!). But there are ways to make the move more manageable...
Loop Team: Offering Remote Workers an In-office Feel
As we’ve moved to work from home during the pandemic, it’s been challenging for remote workers to feel connected. Loop Team, a new entrant into the enterprise communications space, thinks the way we are communicating needs improvement. That’s why the startup is...
Remote Work is Team’s Dream
Started by McMannes and Liza Rodewald in 2016, Instant Teams creates fully integrated remote teams for companies, drawing from a talent pool of military spouses and veterans who have expertise in fields such as marketing, tech and customer service. From one side of...
Power Through an Outage with These Six Items
Millions of business professionals around the globe are working remotely during the coronavirus pandemic. While some organizations are bringing employees on-site, others have made long-term commitments to remote work. Needless to say, even the most functional home...
SEC: U.S. Tech Firms Can Compensate Gig Workers with Equity
The U.S. securities regulator on Tuesday proposed a pilot program to allow tech companies like Uber and Lyft to pay gig workers up to 15% of their annual compensation in equity rather than cash, a move it said was designed to reflect changes in the workforce. The...
How Gig Workers Can Manage Student Loan Debt
THE GIG ECONOMY IS booming as more companies create space for independent workers to take on contract employment on a freelance, short-term basis. Gig workers, as they are called, are a growing self-employed workforce. Whether a direct impact of the ongoing...
Gig Wage Offers Financial Services to Underbanked Gig Workers
Gig Wage, a payments platform founded by a Black former college basketball player in 2014, recently announced a partnership with online banking giant Green Dot that could take the Dallas-based startup to the next level in its mission to ensure underbanked gig workers...
Keeping Teams Connected
One moment you're in a conference room gathered shoulder to shoulder with your colleagues, discussing the latest Netflix series, waiting for the weekly meeting to start, and then the next moment, you're at your kitchen table navigating a whole new way of working. One...
