Contractors Go After Share Company Uber in Several Lawsuits
Is Uber really the gift to freelancers that it seems to think it is? Many people aren’t so sure anymore. Uber is a service that connects users in need of rides to drivers in...
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‘Soloprenuers’ and Freelancers Are a Rapidly Growing Portion of America’s Changing Workforce
New research has found that the American workforce is shifting from the traditional nine-to-five, stationary worker to people who have been dubbed “solopreneurs.” According to Business News Daily, the findings were released in conjunction with...
Work-From-Home Freelancers Find New Ways to Deal with Isolation
With the ease of the internet for telecommuting, many people are switching over to freelancing from the comfort of their own homes. Freelancing often gives people flexibility and freedom they never had in an...
Good Office Design is the Key to Employee Retention
Most employee retention strategies are focused on a company’s corporate culture, but what employers are not paying enough attention to is the physical space that they have provided their employees with. Each detail of...
The One Group Which Marketers Cannot Reach on Social Media
Although social media is one of the best platforms that companies can use for marketing campaigns, it seems as though the range of 18 to 24-year-olds is immune to even the most innovative marketing...
Freelance Workers on the Rise Amid Slow Economic Recovery
With unemployment rates still high, and a rocky economic recovery, more and more Americans have been forced to work odd jobs and take work as it comes. For many residents of California, this has...
Frequent Smartphone Users like Freelancers at Risk for Nomophobia
Americans love their cell phones, and for good reason. For freelancers, social media gurus and large and small business owners, it’s nearly impossible to live without a fully functioning smartphone. But are people actually...
Freelance Restaurant Critics Find More Opportunities in Newspaper Industry
As newspapers encounter strained budgets and smaller audiences, many publications have been downsizing full-time positions and replacing permanent employees with freelancers. The Houston Press won the attention of many media critics when it recently ran an...
Promise of Benefit Reform for Freelancers
For those who decide to leave the corporate employment world and set off on their own entrepreneurial goals as a freelance worker, the only thing holding them back is the fact that they will...
Workers See Advantages of Offering Work for Free
In 2014, an increasing number of the American workforce is choosing to work for free. In the new book “Recession-Proof Graduate: How To Land the Job You Want by Doing Free Work,” author and...