31aug2021

workshifter -- Redefining Work

August 31, 2021

31 AUGUST 2021

When it comes to evaluating career advice, few people are in a position to hear so much of it—and evaluate how it works out for the practitioners—than career coaches. Since they help their clients ...

Kerri Strug was part of the U.S. women's gymnastics team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Strug pushed through her severely injured ankle from her first vault to land on one foot in her second vault ...

Six Black banks — including four of the nation’s largest — have joined a new digital platform by Citi. The action could help the banks increase lending to African American entrepreneurs. According to a ...

More than 125 years after President Grover Cleveland signed a bill making Labor Day a national holiday, American workers face a rather different set of challenges than the laborers of the late 19th ...

Being an entrepreneur is a lot more demanding — both physically and mentally — than most people think. The majority of entrepreneurs work far more than 40 hours a week, and most don’t make ...

White collar, blue collar … new collar? There's a job classification that has emerged over the past few years and is appearing in career conversations with increasing frequency: new collar jobs. Unlike ...

If you were lucky enough to keep your job over the past year and a half, the pandemic likely still had a profound impact on how you work (and still does). But even though hybrid work has likely been the ...

Who wins and who loses when companies can hire from anywhere? Some employees and freelancers who can work remotely will have vastly expanded opportunities and the possibility of significant ...

I’m a tricky one to ask about the future of offices. That’s because my adult work life has consisted of being an EMT, a university theater instructor and a journalist for more than three decades. I never ...

It's been said many times: it's not about the changes but about our reactions to them. Organizations and individuals are forced to shift and change under the current reality that the future offers no "new ...