A set of economic, political, and societal forces is currently causing profound changes in work and in the relationship between workers and the businesses that benefit from their labor. Read more »
The Elance denial-of-service attack has been going on for over a day now, though it is now only sporadic. Elance says it has bought in new defences to try cope. Meanwhile… Read more »
ISS is one of the world largest private employers, with over 530,000 employees worldwide, but is largely unknown except to its workers and client companies. It is an outsourcing company, offering… Read more »
Jeffrey Leventhal is the co-founder and CEO of Work Market, a work placeform (marketplace + platform = placeform) company, competing with eLance and others. Jeffrey… Read more »
oDesk and Elance, two of the leading online work marketplace platforms, have announced the signing of a definitive agreement to merge the two companies. Fabio Rosati, the CEO of Elance, will… Read more »
LinkedIn’s CEO Jeff Weiner, in an interview at TechCrunch last week, expanded on his ideas about the “professional graph” — the network linking you to professional colleagues, and colleagues of colleagues… Read more »
I read an article by Adam Davidson in the NY Times Magazine, discussing so-called “cliff jumpers”: service professionals that have dropped the idea of billable hours for their time: During the… Read more »
On-demand expertise is a large part of the future of work, but getting that expertise can be a complicated process. But challenges can be overcome through freelance marketplaces, crowdsourcing platforms, and… Read more »
During the past few months, many of the trends that underlie the social transformation in business have accelerated, like the rapid shift to proximal devices and the emergence of social platforms… Read more »