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.
The Handy lawsuit is a perfect example of Silicon Valley's newest dilemma: Startups that deliver real-world services through an app want the product to be great every time.
Yeahhh... the old Industrial Age job security has died, welcome to the new Age of Freelance consulting... It's better to accommodate to that than sing the nostalgia tune...:-)))
Peers Now Offers Products For Independent Workers In The Sharing Economy. peers, A Platform That Caters To Workers In The Sharing Economy, Is Launching Its First Two Products.
In today's emerging economy, 53 million Americans are "independent workers" or freelancers, about one-third of the entire workforce, according to Sara Horowitz, this year's recipient of the Eugene V. Debs Award.
The rise of Uber, Lyft, Task Rabbit, Elance and other online labor marketplaces, combined with employers’ desire to lower payroll and insurance costs, has driven up the number of people cobbling together a living from freelancing.
Meanwhile, others are eagerly embracing collaborative consumption and various digital platforms — such as Etsy and Airbnb — that enable the freelance economy to proliferate.
Like every other generation before us, we believe that we're living in the most important time in history. Exploring the future of work for a freelance..
That could in turn affect the valuations of not just Lyft and Uber but also other startups that rely on large networks of privately contracted individuals.
The rise of "independent contractors" Is the most significant legal trend in the American workforce -- contributing directly to low pay, irregular hours, and job insecurity. It's become a race to the bottom....
The 'sharing economy' is transforming Australia's economic landscape, with two thirds of job seekers looking to platforms like UberX, Airtasker and 99designs to supplement their income in 2015.
In today's "Morning Must Read," Bloomberg’s Brendan Greeley recaps the op-ed pieces and analyst notes providing insight behind today's headlines on "Bloomberg Surveillance.”
Around the world we are facing unprecedented unemployment -- even in the developed world. Youth are particularly hard hit. In 2014 more than 1.6 million students graduated from American colleges and universities. Many moved directly into the swollen ranks of the unemployed. After taking on enormous debt to finance their studies, they ended up competing for unpaid internships or low-paying jobs for which their education is irrelevant. This violates the tacit pact made with them: If they were industrious, law-abiding and diligent students, their lives would be prosperous.
Peers, a platform that caters to workers in the sharing economy, is launching its first two products. One is a $1 million insurance coverage option for..
The text below is taken from the European Freelancers movement’s campaign website, which is built on the book written by Joel Dullroy and Anna Cahsman: Independents Unite! If you are a peer producer, self-employed or part of a phyle collective, go read their manifesto and lend a hand to an emerging movement with your signature to the open petition.
However with the freelancer economy, collaboration platforms, and new management approaches; employees are now starting to shape their own career paths and how they actually work.
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