WorkShifter_5May2020

WorkShifter -- The Voice of the Independent Worker

May 05, 2020

5 MAY 2020

The freelancer life is a hard one. If you’re lucky, you lock down a couple of solid clients who pay reliably; but even the most experienced freelancer will inevitably find work drying up for (hopefully short) ...

Corien Oenema, CEO and founder of Coobly was already focusing on online entrepreneurship with her company before the outbreak of the corona crisis. However, now perhaps more than ever she sees ...

As many businesses across the U.S. have cobbled together work-from-home programs to comply with COVID-19 social-distancing measures, some workers with disabilities wonder why they were ...

In response to the on-going Covid-19 outbreak, delivery food network DoorDash is stepping up support for its employees. In a partnership with the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office, DoorDash ...

Small business owners may be planning to apply for a loan through the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) or Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) program. These programs recently got ...

Most of the estimated 23 million independent contractors and gig workers made newly eligible last month for unemployment benefits during the coronavirus pandemic are still waiting for relief ...

With nearly 22 million people filing for unemployment (at the time of writing this) due to the coronavirus pandemic, millions more working remotely and commerce slowing to a crawl, the impact on the ...

Working remotely is undoubtedly having its moment. And, while some may still be adjusting to their new routine, there is a silver lining. Working remotely is effective. It keeps employees engaged and ...

A recent Upwork study revealed that freelancers are more committed to advancing existing skills and learning new ones and are generally more proactive about keeping their skill sets sharp and ...

Free can only get you so far and while we’re definitely all set with geeking out in our rooms with an ever-growing catalogue of free entertainment to consume wholesale, many of us still have to put ...