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 »
I caught up with my friend Kakul Srivastava the other day. She’s now working a head of product for WeWork, the largest coworking company. WeWork has locations in nine US cities,… Read more »
The communication tools being used to converse and coordinate work are increasingly the same for internal and external contacts. One fifth of modern workers work with freelancers monthly. Read more »
There are sites like Linkedin, geared for recruiting and hiring professionals through networking and content sharing. And of course, freelance placeforms (marketplace + platform) like Elance-oDesk support the growing proportion of… Read more »
Brightidea, the innovation platform, has a fall release coming out, and their press release summarizes what’s coming: New highlights from Brightidea’s Fall 2014 release include: • Crowdfunding – source financial investment… Read more »
The online marketplace for creative and professional freelance work is growing steadily. One indication came last week as Fiverr raised $30 million from a group pf well-known investors, including Qumra Capital,… Read more »
The discussion about the changing nature of work — specifically with regard to the shift away from full-time employment to a freelancer-dominated, gig economy — has been growing. A number of… 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 »
I guess it’s not surprising that Kevin Kelly, the co-founder of Wired and now the magazine’s Senior Maverick, would be using state-of-the-art business… 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 »