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Super Temps to the Rescue

Small Business Labs

Excellent article in the Harvard Business Review on The Rise of the SuperTemp.  According to the article: "Supertemps are top managers and professionals—from lawyers to CFOs to consultants—who’ve been trained at top schools and companies and choose to pursue project-based careers independent of any major firm."

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Book Review: Raw Deal - How the Uber Economy is Screwing American Workers

Small Business Labs

Because of this dark side, we need better laws and protections for temps, contract workers and others being unfairly exploited or in need of more economic security.  Despite the book's hyperbole, vitriol and one-sided point of view, I genuinely enjoyed it.   And Raw Deal does a great job describing the dark side. 

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Is it the Gig, Sharing, Access, 1099, Freelance or On-Demand Economy?

Small Business Labs

As the article points out, there's broad agreement that most of the sharing economy companies - Uber, Airbnb, etc. This is what do we call what continues to be commonly called the  "sharing economy""? have nothing to do with sharing.    We've long felt the term "sharing economy" was a misnomer.

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Is the Staffing Industry Facing a Kodak Moment?

Small Business Labs

In the Staffing Industry Review article Human Cloud, IT Staffing Firms Eye Each Other - Warily he's quoted as saying: “Almost all large, sophisticated corporations are flat-out refusing to use non-W2 temporary labor. This is clearly an attempt at spin by Dameris.

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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

Success

professor emeritus of human resource management at Rutgers University and editor of Compensation & Benefits Review. This article appears in the January 2016 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated. “Career development used to be part of HR planning,” says Charles H. How can we develop them?’ Nobody does that anymore.”.

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More Canadians Becoming Freelancers

Small Business Labs

  From the article: "The jobs that are coming back are part-time and temporary. If we mention a product or service that we received for free or other considerations, we will note it. Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc. Web/Tech women work/life balance

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Is Your Resume Hot? Or a HOT mess?

Melissa Peoples

She has so much to say to the Administrative community and I am over the moon that I can share her first article with you. Reasons for doing so will be explored in future articles - stay tuned!] So, after reading all of the above [and thank you for doing so, since this is my first LinkedIn article!], You are welcome!

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