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Examining The Global Impact Of The Gig Economy Explosion

Allwork

For example, in world regions like Sub-Saharan Africa, job postings for gig workers on the world’s largest digital platform grew exponentially by 130% from 2016-2020. In comparison, North America’s postings only grew by 14%. Who is gig work supporting?

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What Is Venture Capital Funding? Everything You Need to Know

Success

In 2016, they co-founded Instant Teams , a remote team development company that provides flexible work opportunities for military families. They received seed funding in 2018 and 2020 and then subsequently raised Series A in 2022. Liza Rodewald and Erica McMannes met in 2014 as freshly uprooted Army spouses.

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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

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in 2020, according to the “Missing Pieces Report” by Deloitte and the Alliance for Board Diversity. Or how, according to a 2020 study published by AnitaB.org, women make up just under 29% of the tech workforce. in 2016 to 44.3% And if you keep up your skill set, you’re always in demand.” Start at the top. It’s flexible.

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Best of the Best: How to Create a Personal Brand Like DJ Khaled

Success

They came to the United States with skill sets and a belief they could prosper from it. There’s “fake it till you make it,” and there’s making the most of your skills no matter what. Khaled, Nicole and the boys graced the cover of Parents in 2020. It takes musical skill and a degree of technical precision. I love the man.

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Future Shock: a message from the past that defines the present

Workplace Insight

We all have our 2020 visions, at least for a little while. This is a past just as exotic as the future once described by the likes of Charles Handy, James Gleick and Alvin Toffler who died in 2016 in Los Angeles at the age of 87. We are all futurologists now. Yes, a book. He foresaw what this would mean for our professional lives.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

Success

An 18-year blogging veteran, Ajayi covers all things culture with a critical yet humorous lens on her website Awesomely Luvvie and wrote the instant best-sellers Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual (2021) and I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual (2016). She was selected as 10 Best Performing CEO’s 2020 by The Business Berg.

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12 documentaries and series that will give you an up-close look at climate change — and some solutions

Ideas.Ted

Exquisite beauty and terrible loss are threaded throughout Chasing Coral , the 2017 film that captured long stretches of coral bleaching in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in 2016. The documentary follows a highly skilled team of filmmakers on a mission to document the mostly hidden impact of climate change.

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