If you’re anything like most professionals, you’ve heard of the gig economy, but you don’t know exactly what it means for your business. This new term is the latest entry in buzzword bingo, and it describes an emerging labor market characterized by the prevalence of temporary freelance or contract work instead of traditional full-time employment….
OneSpace CEO Stephanie Leffler joined Michael Calhoun and Travis Sheridan on KMOX’s Nothing Impossible to discuss the benefits of an elastic workforce and why the future is bright for freelancers and the companies who engage them. Additionally, Leffler shared how OneSpace’s new SaaS platform makes it even more efficient for companies to leverage a team…
It might seem like crowdsourcing work is purely a 21st-century innovation. The term “crowdsourcing” itself was coined in 2005 by Wired magazine editors Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson and subsequently popularized a year later when Howe used it in an article and a companion blog post. Regardless, while the term is fairly new, the idea…
In a perfect world, every person’s level of success at work would be based on merit. The most qualified and capable candidate would get the job. The employees who work hardest and produce at the highest level would be promoted first and paid best. Worker evaluations would be entirely objective and based on clear, quantifiable…
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