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April 16, 2016 6:28 AM
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The youngest workers loathe pointlessly rigid schedules and veal-pen cubicles but are enchanted by flexibility and opportunity.
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September 10, 2015 3:12 PM
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April 22, 2015 4:23 AM
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The former secretary of labor on the need for a federal law requiring employers to pay for scheduled work
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April 2, 2015 4:08 AM
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Many experts studying the topic of automation believe that the current rate of advancement is leading us into a future with less and less available
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April 1, 2015 3:29 PM
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As a new generation of online marketplaces, such as transportation service Uber, start to disrupt existing business models, the big question will be: how c
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March 25, 2015 3:31 PM
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In the face of looming ecological catastrophe, can unions help restructure work itself? And what’s gender inequality got to do with it? We posed these questions to Tom Malleson, assistant professor of Social Justice and Peace Studies at King’s University College at Western University in London, Ontario, and author of After Occupy: Economic Democracy in the 21st Century.
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March 17, 2015 4:21 PM
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"There's nothing about this that is a traditional employment relationship," Lyft CEO Logan Green told CNBC.
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March 11, 2015 4:54 PM
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In today’s digital gold rush, microtask workers are getting paid, though possibly shortchanged.
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March 3, 2015 4:24 PM
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What a brilliant opportunity we have to reinvent the world of work to deliver an abundance of meaningful jobs within an environment that is 100% human....
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February 28, 2015 1:57 PM
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The basic contract of working hard and getting paid will keep breaking downand AI will be to blame.
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February 21, 2015 2:41 PM
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Founder of TaskRabbit explains why the need for more flexible workspaces and lifestyles is leading people to become "taskers"
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February 18, 2015 4:24 PM
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Photo credit: DonkeyHotey / Foter / CC BY. Article cross-posted from On the Commons. Written by Peter Barnes.
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February 11, 2015 3:44 AM
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In the world of Uber and Homejoy, workers have a "portfolio" instead of a job.
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October 6, 2015 1:42 PM
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What makes work satisfying? Apart from a paycheck, there are intangible values that, Barry Schwartz suggests, our current way of thinking about work simply ignores. It's time to stop thinking of workers as cogs on a wheel.
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June 14, 2015 1:59 PM
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In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century’s end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Great Britain or the United States would
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April 2, 2015 4:42 AM
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Open offices have again become the workplace standard—but is this format good for productivity?
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April 2, 2015 3:53 AM
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Antiwork sentiment pervades society, but the basic income movement is one reason to be optimistic.
The post Brian Dean, “Antiwork – a radical shift in how we view ‘jobs’” appeared first on BIEN.
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March 29, 2015 5:18 PM
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How close will February's unemployment rate come to "full employment"? Not close enough, argues economist John Komlos, who believes the right to life implies a right to a job. Komlos is the author of “What Every Economics Student Needs to Know and Doesn’t Get in the Usual Principles Text."
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March 18, 2015 6:32 PM
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Businesses should collaborate with policymakers to ensure that the gig economy becomes a tool for economic mobility rather than just a mechanism to pay less for more.
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April 14, 2015 4:42 AM
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Sara Horowitz is in demand. The founder of the Freelancers Union, which has 250,000 independent contractors on its books, is struck by the attention from politicians and think tanks.
Via Denis Pennel
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March 11, 2015 2:34 AM
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The 3 Biggest Myths Blinding Us to the Economic Truth
1. The “job creators” are CEOs, corporations, and the rich, whose taxes must be low in order to induce them to create more jobs. Rubbish.
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February 28, 2015 2:15 PM
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VideoI've written about the five trends shaping the future of work quite a bit and it's actually how I start many of the keynotes I give at conference and events. However, I haven't done a video about this topic so I wanted to fix that!
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February 24, 2015 2:46 PM
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Companies like Uber, FancyHands, Airbnb and Snagajob are flourishing, driven by technology, a slow economic recovery and consumer demand. But what does that mean for today's workers?
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February 20, 2015 2:02 AM
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How would you like to live in an economy where robots do everything that can be predictably programmed in advance, and almost all profits go to the robots’ owners?
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February 18, 2015 4:23 PM
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In 1998, when the Winn-Dixie grocery store in Northeast Greensboro, North Carolina closed, it created a food desert—a community without easy access to food. For years, area residents tried to get another grocery chain to come in, but none wanted to come to the predominantly African-American, low-income town. The community finally came up with a solution—one that didn't rely on an outside company to come in. They put into motion a plan to open a food cooperative.
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