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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

Allwork

Erin Balsa, head of content marketing at The Predictive Index , has been hiring freelance writers since 2011 and managing them since 2015. Her secret? She shares an onboarding document with every new freelancer. “It

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All work and some play: the rise of the ‘Bleisure’ travellers

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‘We haven’t calculated our travel stat for 2016 as yet, but in 2015 Steve was on the road 171 days to 44 cities in 11 countries,’ she said. ‘I If you’re curious about your company culture or even its policy towards bleisure travel you could approach the subject with your manager. ‘As I tagged along on about half of those trips’.

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Small Business Trends for 2016

Small Business Labs

Oil, of course, fell to below $40 per barrel in 2015, and as we pointed out in our 2015 trends this had both positive and negative effects.  The collapse of China's growth and a weak European Union economy led to a steep declines in most commodities prices in 2015, with the Bloomberg commodities index falling 26%.

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The Post Office Expanding Use of Contingent Workers

Small Business Labs

 According to a labor report written by the Post Office in 2011 , they are looking to grow their contingent workforce to 30% of their total workforce by 2015. Contingent Workforce Government Policy Independent workers' .   They also plan to continue to expand their use of contingents. Sounds pretty good.

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Tablet Sales Forecasted to Explode

Small Business Labs

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