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After nearly two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, employee expectations and company strategies have permanently shifted. The surge of Omicron in December 2021 and January 2022 has once again delayed office reopening plans, according to The Wall Street Journal. Many…
Read More Survey shows hybrid work is here to stay — here’s how to get started.
To alleviate stress for new remote workers, many companies stopped their performance management systems during the pandemic’s peak. But rather than stopping performance management, they should have focused on accelerating their organization’s ability to be agile. The best performance management…
The issues of automation and digital transformation and how to create inclusive, transparent, and innovative cultures were some of the many topics discussed by CEOs, technologists, and human resources leaders last week in San Francisco at the Work Rebooted conference. Julie Douthart, biochemist…
Read More Work Rebooted conference examines everything from AI to cultures and the gig economy!
When the California legislature passed its bill last week that most likely will require Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash to convert contract workers to employees, the legislation upended the business models of these companies and the gig economy itself. The upending,…
Read More Gig economy disrupted. How to keep your company out of legal pitfalls.
The percentage of Americans working in alternative work arrangements — such as independent contractors, on-call workers, and those who contract through a third party — has shrunk 0.6% since 2005. According to a US Labor Department report, the total of…
Read More Why it doesn’t matter that the gig workforce may be shrinking…
Yesterday the California Supreme Court adopted a new legal standard that will make it much more difficult for businesses to classify workers as independent contractors, drastically changing the legal landscape across the golden state. The misclassification of workers can result…
The United States celebrates Labor Day this week, a holiday that was created to commemorate the Haymarket massacre in Chicago on May 4, 1886. What began as a peaceful rally in support of an eight hour workday (most workers labored…
During the past several days, we have seen headlines about two companies that employ drivers and, according to the courts or regulators, violated laws on contingent workers and the definition of technical platforms. FedEx disclosed a $228 million settlement for…
