WorkShifter_16June2020

WorkShifter -- Redefining Work

June 16, 2020

16 JUNE 2020

When a Walmart associate named Jacqueline Cote filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2014 contending that the company was discriminating against her by ...

Michael J. Sikorsky, CEO and co-founder Robots and Pencils, sees a world where AI and technology are operating autonomously, with little need for continuous oversight. This is increasingly the case ...

On June 15, 2020, the SBA announced that it was again opening up its Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) grant and loan program. This means that independent contractors, freelancers, and gig ...

Thirty-seven percent of remote workers wear their pajamas during the day. That may not be a best practice, especially on a Zoom call, but it’s the reality, according to a Monday.com survey of 1,000...

City Council members voted unanimously Monday for legislation to provide premium pay for gig workers at food delivery companies in the city during the COVID-19 crisis. Council Bill 119799 directs ...

The Kung Group, recently surveyed more than 500 founders of venture-backed companies from within our network about how the global health crisis has impacted their businesses and altered their ...

Instacart, the on-demand, grocery-delivery company, was a big beneficiary of the Covid-19 pandemic. A combination of being ordered to stay at home, coupled with peoples’ fear of catching the virus by ...

The bills would allow self-employed professionals in creative industries—as well as certified translators, promoters, and others who typically work for several employers on a contract basis—to maintain the ...

The coronavirus pandemic has destroyed tens of millions of American jobs. How many of them will come back? That might be one of the most pressing questions of the Covid-19 recession. Arguably no ...

“Back to normal” is no longer a realistic marker for American office culture as the COVID-19 health crisis ushers in a work-from-home paradigm shift. “People have woken up and you can’t put the ...