Sentences with phrase «of gig work»

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When I tell people that I work remotely, and that I manage a team of remote workers from my backyard, I always get the same response: «how did you land that gig!»

It turns out that before founding Otto and then being acquired by Uber, Levandowski worked for Waymo, and, according to its filing, downloaded 14,000 highly confidential files — a whopping 10 gigs of information on core self - driving technology.

But a new study from consumer lender Earnest shows that the vast majority of those 4 million people aren't making very much money by working on any of the major gig economy platforms.

She started applying to work at music startups, but found few administrative gigs — and a lot of openings for programmers.

When I interviewed Karoli Hindriks, founder of Jobbatical, a site that helps professionals find gigs working for startups abroad, about why American marketers and techies were so interested in these gigs, she had this to say: «I love Airbnb not only because it is often cheaper than hotels, but because you're experiencing a culture.

Perhaps the point of contact you despise leaves and is replaced by someone who's more pleasant to work with, or, better yet, the person you do enjoy working with gets a better gig at a competitor and sways his or her new company to hire your firm.

«The problem is people really do have episodic work that's gig - based,» says Sara Horowitz, executive director of the New York City - based Freelancers Union.

If it involves the business of music, Allan Reid has done it — having worked as a major label A&R exec and an indie artist manager (among other gigs) before becoming president and CEO of Canada's music industry association, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

People who go into the work force expecting to find a 1950s - style General Motors will miss out on the more entrepreneurial opportunities that exist in the so - called gig economy, says Bastian Lehmann, founder of Postmates, a startup that delivers meals in 40 markets.

«There will be a subset of users who will be very seriously working full time in the on - demand economy, but the majority will still treat it as a part - time gig,» predicts Zhou.

It's a word that, here, does not so much connote an actual small - business owner as a feeling — an image of the young worker in the 21st - century gig economy who DJs on the weekends and, while almost certainly doing underpaid and entirely precarious labour, has earned the right to work from her local coffee shop in the slouchy drop - shoulder crewneck of her choice.

After high school, he sold the shirts on the side while working a series of part - time gigs: bartending, delivering pizzas, manning registers at Toys «R» Us and 7 - Eleven.

Despite the trend towards increased workplace flexibility in the form of perks like unlimited PTO, working from home and staggered hours to cut down on commute time, more Millennials are job hopping or leaving behind the security of full - time employment to join the gig economy.

Having a side gig is increasingly commonplace and acceptable, especially if you're a hard - working employee and your hustle isn't a conflict of interest.

But the turnover at these companies can be quite high; an estimated one in six participants is new, and more than half of gig economy works leave their jobs within a year, according to a November 2016 report from JPMorgan Chase & Co..

On - demand jobs are appealing to Millennials because they offer exactly the type of flexibility they desire — the ability to set their own hours, seamless technology to find and complete work, and the ability to take on work or «gigs» that appeal to them most.

Nomad Health, a startup that's set up a platform for a new generation of doctors and nurses to pursue gig work that meets their own needs, has raised $ 12 million in a Series B funding round led by Polaris Panthers, the company announced Tuesday.

Becoming conversant in code, it turns out, has been one of the best parts of the gig: working with engineers and web developers and seeing how good software happens.

«Millennials are increasingly turning to gig platforms as a means of achieving that work / life balance and flexibility that they so highly value,» said Marcus.

Though just 3 percent of those work more than 15 hours a week as an independent cited the likes of Freelancer.com as their primary source of work, «they are relatively important for young and inexperienced independent workers, with 18 percent of Gen Y independents» listing them as a source of gigs and «21 percent of those who have been independent for less than one year» relying on these marketplaces as well.

Gig work, whether in preference to corporate jobs or because full time work is lacking, is absorbing an ever - growing portion of the labor force.

Brie Reynolds, the director of online content for FlexJobs, says «side jobs» are defined as anything part time, including freelance, temporary, short - or long - term, work - from - home, or in - person flexible gigs.

And the future of work, endless articles and think pieces have explained, is the gig economy.

Certainly the countless young people vying for entrance into the firm understand that working insane hours is part of the Wall Street gig.

A side gig can be your treasured second stream of income or your safety net, depending on how Plan A is working out.

One - quarter of those actively earning money from labor platforms heavily relied on this income, earning 75 percent of their total income for a given month from gig labor.71 Overall, those earning money from online labor platforms appeared to use it as a substitute for volatile nonplatform work during downturns at their other jobs.

Stuck between rigid 20th Century employment classifications and the more complex realities of modern work, many gig employers have found themselves facing «former employees» in court that they never hired, fired, met, or even worked with in a traditional capacity.

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In months where individuals worked for a gig labor platform, they earned 15 percent of their income through gig work.

It found that workers on labor platforms relied on their gig economy earnings either as a primary source of income or to make up for poor earnings from nonplatform work.

Some see the so - called sharing economy as being responsible for the advent of a «gig economy», in which people make ends meet by arranging freelance work over the Internet rather than working in traditional full - time jobs (either voluntarily, or because no other work is available).

The growing number of gig economy workers in this country may have the freedom to work whenever they want, and sometimes from wherever they want, but when it comes to buying a home, all of that freedom has its price.

Aspect's Jennifer Fonstad and The Muse's Kathryn Minshew provide perspective on the «future of work» in this piece in The New Yorker on the Gig...

I'm part of the gig economy working a day or two a week as a contract political consultant and covering most of my and my retired wife's expenses.

But her main gig is heading the Searle Freedom Trust, a leading supporter of conservative policy work.

This sort of loosening, combined with the reduction in risk resulting from a better safety net and basic income, plus the possibility of building working capital through gigs, could lead to an explosion in creativity and entrepreneurial activity

Because more working people aren't eligible since now they're self - employed, contractors, part - timers, consultants — part of the gig economy.

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This book is a must read for those concerned about how technology is disrupting the way we work and eroding the social safety net, and how policy makers should respond to ensure that the growing number of workers in the «gig» economy earn adequate benefits.

Like others around me were growing companies, moving up the job ladder, posting screenshots of amazing work they were doing (growth, results, APIs, fancy dashboards, prominent speaking gigs).

Like you, I'm a stay at home dad with a working spouse except my side gig has been real estate investing instead of blogging.

The author of Thriving in the Gig Economy is an independent work pioneer and founder of a consulting firm - M Squared Consulting - that relies heavily on independent consultants to staff their projects.

I haven't worked on apprenticeship projects much in the last few years, but one of my current gigs has got me thinking about the area again.

Diane Mulcahy is the author of The Gig Economy: The Complete Guide to Getting Better Work, Taking More Time Off, and Financing the Life you Want.

«I thought, if I could work on this Monday through Thursday and then work a three - day weekend on all these side gigs and try to make enough money to survive, I could sort of make two full - time jobs out of it.»

As the ideals of the gig economy spread and more people across a wider breadth of sectors can adopt a flexible working life, niche spaces are serving the needs of the increasing number of industries that want to work in coworking spaces.

More problematically for those who work for these organizations, the companies tend to be structured such that the vast amount of profits go to the companies, making many of those who work this way very much what I would call «involuntary Gig Workers», workers who would rather have «real» jobs.

From gig jobs through to talent wars, Linda carefully works though what is happening to the world of work and the way that it will affect our lives and organizations.Linda has also been published in many other publications including the Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper.

They're a little more free - spirited than most professionals, thriving off the energy that comes from finding a new gig and working on various projects for various companies.The workspace of a freelancer should be just as creative, spontaneous, and dynamic as he or she is, which makes coworking and freelancing a match made in heaven.

I have fortunately gotten offers to work at a startup and in several different contexts similar to my previous position — and these are things I would potentially enjoy, yes, but to waste the potential equity that «personal brand», dirty as it may sound, creates for me (or anyone else) to leverage into client work that pays well and speaking gigs that open up other opportunities — would be a true «lighting on fire» of that which I had done to build that before quitting.