by admin | Feb 23, 2017 | Freelance Workforce, Management Tips, Purpose At Work
I was honored that Tom Rosenthal of Vorail, a Twitter-like app with a feed of voices rather than 140-characters of text, invited me to speak to the global, visually impaired community. He explained that blind people face mobility challenges and a voice can change...
by admin | Feb 16, 2017 | Freelance Workforce
A version of this article first appeared in Fast Company. According to a recent study by Upwork and the Freelancers Union, the most common places for freelancers to pick up work are friends and family (36%), professional contacts (35%), and online job platforms (29%)...
by admin | Jan 18, 2017 | Freelance Workforce, Future of Work, Purpose At Work
“We had gunfire in our Harlem neighborhood. We have daily gunfire here, but it’s from hunters and gun enthusiasts,” explains Hans Hageman, a creative marketing consultant and strategist. A New York native who remembers an earlier, grittier...
by admin | Dec 18, 2015 | Freelance Workforce, Future of Work, Women in Workforce
I recently had the opportunity to interview five cool—and inspiring—women CEOs who embody the future of work. They’ve walked out of the traditional workforce and started their own purpose-driven businesses that paint a new picture of how we work. I’ll dive deeper into...
by admin | Aug 6, 2015 | Baby Boomer, Diversity in Workforce, Freelance Workforce, Future of Work, Generational Differences at Work, Leadership Development, Management Tips, Women in Workforce
There are big changes coming to the American workforce. While many organizations are watching the economy, there’s another change — almost a revolution — quietly taking place right under our noses. That change is the massive shift in workplace demographics, with four...
by admin | Jul 16, 2015 | Baby Boomer, Diversity in Workforce, Freelance Workforce, Future of Work, Generation X, Generation Y
Freelancers Union and Elance-oDesk took a self-proclaimed deep dive into how Americans are putting together their work-lives. The resulting report, Freelancing in America: A National Survey of the New Workforce, spells out the fact that one of the four major United...
