Not long ago, direct sales companies — like beauty supplier Avon and health & beauty firm Amway — offered independent agents the opportunity to earn money selling their products door to door. Meanwhile, staffing agencies have provided businesses with temporary workers for decades, to cover for those...
The gig economy was once seen as a temporary holdover — an opportunity to earn supplemental income by taking on ad hoc work designing websites, doing yardwork or driving for a rideshare service as time allowed. However, based on recent data trends, that appears to...
Restaurants and bars are often bustling with visitors at night, but these spaces can sit latent and underused during the day while consumers are at work. But by welcoming in gig economy and remote workers, owners of food and beverage venues can bring in foot...
It’s the standard complaint of people when they get old. Those youngsters are just so darn lazy, unwilling to make their way in the world by working double shifts or taking on weekend jobs as their forefathers did when they built this nation with their...
Even in the digital payments world (and as more people travel more often, sometimes working freelance gigs along their journeys), the concept of home remains strong. That is providing opportunity to firms that facilitate temporary work and its wages. Peter Shore, general manager of payments services...
Dueling headlines show that when it comes to the gig economy, differing data tell different stories. Citing findings from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), The Washington Post noted that the share of U.S. workers in the gig economy has fallen to 6.9 percent of workers...
You never know when those Airbnb guests — didn’t they look so innocent on Facebook? — will leave behind a broken TV, whiskey bottles and an unmade bed — or when that rideshare driver will need extra protection against all those risks on the road. The...
And here come the subpoenas …. This week, Uber and Lyft were told by San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera to “turn over records on whether they classify drivers as employees or private contractors, as well as records on driver pay and benefits,” according to a statement...
If you really know the music industry, you know that many tour managers and accountants are barely a half-step removed from the glory days of the abacus. So many of them — along with their peers in other areas of show business — spend long...
