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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

Allwork

In 2020, more than a third of Americans freelanced — up 22% from 2019, CNBC reports. In 2020, more than a third of Americans freelanced — up 22% from 2019, CNBC reports. 24 million Americans consider abandoning their careers for self-employment, according to FreshBooks’s 2019 Self-Employment in America Report. It’s growing.

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Work Sabbaticals: The Latest Nonprofit Retention Strategy

Success

In December 2019, after years of requesting a sabbatical, my board of directors approved a 12-week paid sabbatical planned for June 2020, after our legislative session concluded. I live by my (multiple) alarms, to-do lists and calendar. “Everyone has been even more stressed than usual. What I discovered on sabbatical.

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Episode 275: Starting Something Stupid with Richie Norton

Productivityist

In 2019, Richie was ranked one of the world’s top 100 business coaches by Dr. Marshall Goldsmith. He is an international speaker (including TEDx & Google Startup Grind) and serial entrepreneur. This episode is also brought to you by Woven Calendar. I absolutely love Woven.

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Episode 269: You Are Awesome with Neil Pasricha

Productivityist

This episode is brought to you by Woven Calendar. Woven Calendar features powerful scheduling tools built into a smart, collaborative calendar. Make sure you take advantage of this limited time offer as it is only valid until December 31, 2019 at 11:59 pm. I absolutely love Woven.

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Why we need to consider switching to a 4-day workweek — now 

Ideas.Ted

No company just lopped a day off their calendar. For example, Flocc London digital consultancy ELSE holds their internal meetings on hard chairs to encourage people to be brief, while at Copenhagen-based IIH Nordic, they use countdown timers to keep meetings short. Instead, they had to meaningfully redesign how they worked.

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Is Your Resume Hot? Or a HOT mess?

Melissa Peoples

When I met Vanessa in 2019 we immediately clicked and I have had the pleasure of watching her grow and expand in her career. At first blush, my pride flared up and my internal Vanessa started to craft a sassy retort to the gentleman about the awesomeness of my resume, yada yada. Event planning could also figure into that category.

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These Mobile Flower Trucks Make Their Businesses Bloom

Success

McCrary’s business acumen also earned 1818 Farms Amazon’s United States “ Woman-Owned Small Business of the Year ” award in 2019. Peak harvest is in July, when the muggy Alabama heat keeps customers from turning up on the flower truck’s route and there aren’t peak holidays on the calendar. We can’t force nature.”

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