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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

Allwork

In a survey published in 2020’s “ Building the On-Demand Workforce ” report from the Harvard Business School and Boston Consulting Group (BCG), 60% of business leaders said they expected to increasingly “rent” “borrow” or “share” talent with other companies. In 2020, more than a third of Americans freelanced — up 22% from 2019, CNBC reports.

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6 Ways To Prove That Your Company Isn’t Flex-Washing

Allwork

There are six topics companies can cover during the interview process to prove to recruits that they’re the real deal and not just paying lip-service to flexibility. . To prove to recruits that you’re the real deal and not just paying lip-service to flexibility, cover the following topics during the interview process: .

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Are You Ready to Hire a Virtual Assistant?

Success

In its fourth quarter of 2020 and first quarter of 2021 financial reports—while many other companies were experiencing layoffs and frantically downsizing—BELAY announced record-breaking numbers. Not to mention the added burden of sifting through stacks of résumés, arranging interviews and painstakingly checking references.

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The Vanishing Executive Assistant—NOT!

Office Dynamics

I would like to address the recent article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal on January 18, 2020 by Rachel Feintzeig regarding The Vanishing Executive Assistant. They are not paid the big bucks to manage a calendar and book flights. A great executive assistant looks at the entire calendar for a month—what happened last week?

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Too Busy for Relationships? 5 Ways to Make Time for Connection

Success

I interviewed 300 people to discover the quality of their relationships and here’s what they had to say. Has an overloaded calendar or demanding work life left you disconnected from the people and things that matter most to you? That number was only amplified with the effects of 2020. Can you relate? What can we learn from this?

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

Ideas.Ted

My book about the move towards four-day workweek, Shorter , was published in the US in early March 2020. No company just lopped a day off their calendar. “Instantly, you see happier people,” says Paul McNulty, whose online publishing company adopted this schedule in mid-2020. That’s really great to see.”

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2022: My “Year” in Review

Productivityist

Even The NOW Year wall calendar starts in January. I also understand that I’m an outlier when it comes to when I make the start of my year, so I still lean in and share how my calendar year went in posts like this. In March I interviewed Austin Kleon for my podcast again. It’s paying off, too. Pun not intended).

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