The irony of this post is not lost on me. The winter holiday season is usually a time when many Americans take off work to celebrate with family or friends. But for many small-business owners and entrepreneurs, especially those like myself who work in industries with very high seasonal demand, it’s filled with stress and […]
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Imagine a world of virtual reality where people are healed of their illnesses and any kind of pain is gone. We’re no longer far from the future because that’s actually happening right now with the evolution of digital therapeutics. It’s beyond those health monitors found on your watch. Lyle Maxson, the founder of Entheo Digital,
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In another sign of gig economy growth, FedEx and UPS have found that leaning into this emerging space actually made them stronger. At the pandemic’s height, it appeared that gig work was going to compete with traditional package delivery services. The two biggest carriers were inundated with shipments, raising prices and becoming selective about what
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A lot of founders forget that being a great leader and a great manager are both important. But they tend to have this excuse that since they’re leaders, they don’t have to be great managers. Just as much as you need to show excellent leadership, you also need to be a great manager for the
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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics issued a summary of the latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover metric called JOLTS. Here’s the big takeaway: after 15 straight months of more than 10 million job openings, the nation’s skills gap is clearly taking a toll – a crisis that American Staffing Association President and CEO Richard
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Is your current job lighting you up? Is the path of least resistance the way to go or should you put yourself in an uncomfortable position to really find out who you are? Salman Hatta was carved by society to become a successful finance guy, having received his MBA at Wharton Business School. But once
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These are challenging times for corporate and gig workers alike, suggests a recent report that reveals their respective fears over the prospect of a U.S. recession. I’m actually seeing this firsthand. Many people who are coming onto our gig-work platform already have full time jobs but want to earn extra income to pay for basics
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A friend recently sent me an article about training repayment agreement provisions known as TRAPs. Under these arrangements, workers must reimburse their employer for training if they leave their job within a year or so, or even sometimes if they’re laid off. TRAPs were used mainly for very specialized types of roles like an engineer
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Joshua Pies started selling and earning $1,600 at four years old selling key racks. At 21 years old, he owned a snow-plowing business with 35 employees at 21 years old. Eventually, he entered the video production world and established his name there. Born with an entrepreneurial mind and a relentless spirit, Joshua had taken his
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The U.S. Department of Labor recently proposed that independent contractors who are economically dependent on a particular company reclassify as W2 employees. If implemented, it would drastically alter the increasingly popular gig-economy model, which has grown exponentially in just the past two years. The beauty of freelance assignments is that they enable people to work
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