Gig Economy

Why we need knowledge workers to become gig workers post-COVID

Here is why: Because of change in work conditions, void of permanent location, fixed office, because of nomadic and remote work being a normal part of workplace, we need one-off per-task priced services, not the whole service package companies generally offer. The Summary: You find yourself in Singapore for freelance work for 3 months. You […]

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Post Corona Digitalization of Life

I expected my first week of social distancing to feel, well, distant. But I’ve been more connected than ever. My inboxes are full of invitations to digital events — Zoom art classes, Skype book clubs, Periscope jam sessions. Strangers and subject-matter experts are sharing relevant and timely information about the virus on social media, and

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What do you get when you combine the rise of nerd culture and the gig economy? Dungeon masters-for-hire, hosting games at $500 a pop

Taken from Bloomberg: By Mary Pilon, July 8 2019 But D&D has gained more mainstream followers of late, thanks especially to the Netflix show Stranger Things, which premiered its third season on July 4, but also to the racy teen soap Riverdale and the behemoth fantasy book and television series Game of Thrones. (D.B. Weiss,

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This is how gig-economy work has evolved

BY MAUREEN HARRINGTON—GLASSDOOR3 MINUTE READ Article copied from https://www.fastcompany.com/90379491/how-gig-economy-work-has-evolved “Gig.” You’ve heard it mentioned at afterwork drinks, debated on employment sites, and beaten to death by pundits. It may have a new name now, but gigs have been around as long as humans have been paid for “services rendered.” What we now call gigs used to

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The Servant Economy

Taken from https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/24/google-work-from-home-jobs-filters/ The Servant Economy Ten years after Uber inaugurated a new era for Silicon Valley, we checked back in on 105 on-demand businesses. ALEXIS C. MADRIGAL In March 2009, Uber was born. Over the next few years, the company became not just a disruptive, controversial transportation company, but a model for dozens of

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The Uber Economy

Article taken from The Atlantic Is the company destroying full-time work, entrenching us in part-time purgatory, or empowering America’s most independent workers? In the last few years, Uber has gone through a life cycle that once took successful companies decades to complete—from start-up to upstart, from pushy disruptor to pushy behemoth, from iPhone button to

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