5oct2021

workshifter -- Redefining Work

October 05, 2021

5 OCTOBER 2021

Gig Workers Collective, a grassroots organization fighting for better treatment of independent contractors, has announced planning for a walk off for Instacart shoppers on October 16. The group ...

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic made working from home more common and prompted some people to relocate, journalists Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Warzel did both: They ...

Detroit bass player Grover “GT” Tigue knows too well about the wildly varying rhythms of the gig economy. Tigue has been a musician for the past 21 years, but he saw his bookings crash for roughly ...

Today, the pressing talent shortage is hitting just about every business and organization in a big way. It’s more than just a matter of sourcing people willing to work; they also have to possess the ...

Paul A. Dillon, founder of Dillon Consulting Services LLC, and adjunct instructor at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, is a career expert in veterans as a distinct employment class ...

As a gig worker, the most essential aspect of your job will be to meet a plethora of deadlines. If you miss deadlines, you don’t get paid, and you’ll quickly lose customers. You want to be known as ...

Most people still think in terms of returning to work and life as we knew it once the pandemic is over. Meanwhile, return-to-office plans continue to be disrupted, impeding any real chance to test out ...

Napoleon didn’t deride the English as “a nation of shopkeepers,” although that phrase is commonly attributed to him. In fact, it was Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac, a French revolutionary who used it when ...

Despite the proven benefits of gender diversity, there is a conspicuous deficit of women in C-suite roles compared to their male counterparts. Recent data from Korn Ferry indicates that women occupy only ...

The National Safety Council (NSC), America's leading nonprofit safety advocate, released results of a survey conducted as part of an ongoing effort to assess the risks of cannabis in the workplace and ...