As thousands of Hollywood writers strike, the union and writers have warned that studios and streaming companies are trying to turn writers’ livelihoods into “gig work.” In an interview with MarketWatch this week, Adam Conover, a comedian and writer on the Writers...
The question "do we really need to go to the office?" is something many employees are asking in the face of the leadership at major companies like Amazon, Apple, Disney, Starbucks, and JP Morgan mandating three or more days a week of office-based work....
“There are a lot of women with a lot of great ideas,” says Hello Alice President and Co-Founder Elizabeth Gore, “but they continue to be overlooked for the loans, credit, and investors they need to succeed.” Here are five pieces of advice Gore offers women...
Gig work — work for hire as a self-employed freelancer or independent contractor — is more popular than ever. In fact, 36% of employed respondents to McKinsey’s 2022 “American Opportunity Survey” (AOS) identify as independent workers. Twenty-six percent of that group...
Employees and employers may finally be reaching a happy middle ground on remote work arrangements, a new report finds. And it's not the old model of requiring workers to come into the office every day. A majority of companies now offer hybrid work arrangements,...
The future of work we have all been waiting for came faster than we expected, completely reshaping how to start and run businesses. Enterprises and established businesses are currently struggling to rethink their offices and company culture as the human cloud...
Though some workers have returned to offices, remote work has been normalized for others over the last three years. And some now have more autonomy to choose where they live. For freelancers in particular, it’s becoming more common for workers to settle in a city they...
There's a pretty good chance that wherever you're reading this article, it's not from your desk in a traditional office. You might instead be reading it while you're working from home or from a coffee shop or another space, or maybe on your phone as you wait between...
Heather E. McGowan is a keynote speaker and future-of-work thought leader. She researches the patterns and behaviors that are shaping the future of work. Her clients range from startups to publicly traded Fortune 500 companies, including AMP Financial, Autodesk...
Earlier this week, we tuned into Work/23: The Big Shift, a virtual summit from MIT Sloan Management Review about navigating some of the most important challenges workplace leaders face right now. One of the standout ideas from the event came from the closing...
