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97% of Freelancers Plan for Long-term Gig Work
If you don’t hire freelancers, thinking that they are ideal for short-term assignments only, you should think again. According to a recent survey from Bunny Studio, 97% of respondents consider freelancing a long-term career choice. Be it a small business owner, a...
How Newly Unemployed Over-50s Can Start Up Again
Max Wallace, a former professional boxer with an interest in art, wants to set up his own wellbeing centre. Sunil Jindal plans to set up a Mumsnet for older men while Sharon Thomas has a business model to monetise her “mini artwork” greetings cards. But these...
Why Right Now Is the Best Time Ever to Start a Business
As technology futurist Kevin Kelly would say, right now is the best time to start a new business. Unfortunately, many potential founders, like my friend, are fearful. This is not anecdotal. Between 1978 and 2012, the number of new companies...
Slow Broadband, Remote Security Top Remote Work Issues
Unreliable home broadband connectivity is the primary technical challenge businesses are having to deal with as remote working continues during the COVID-19 pandemic. That's one takeaway from a survey of 100 C-level executives and IT professionals in the US by...
Successfully Managing Your Remote Workforce
The way you manage a remote workforce will have long-term implications for your business and its growth potential. If you do a poor job, morale and productivity will suffer; if you're successful, a remote workforce can build loyalty and boost engagement. Here are some...
Covid Pivotal in Changing Game for Gig Workers
As the world economy plunged into a sharp downturn because of Covid, organisations were faced with difficult choices from business models to maintaining operations to sustenance of their workforce. Quick but difficult decisions had to be taken. While some...
Opinion: Gig Workers Need Protection More Than Ever
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have come to rely more and more on “gig” workers to supply us with our day-to-day needs. When restaurants were forced to shut their doors and grocery stores saw severe restrictions, drivers for companies like GrubHub and...
Took Early Social Security During COVID and Regret It? You Could Get a Do-Over
Social Security offers the choice to take the benefit as early as age 62 —an option that may appeal to more older Americans given high rates of unemployment in the pandemic. But some people may regret that decision if they resume working as the economy improves....
