Jul 17, 2016 | Human Capital
Independent Contractors and Entertainment Law This week World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) was sued on behalf of dozens for former wrestlers who claim the company hid the adverse neurological effects of repeated poundings received in the wrestling ring. This...Mar 2, 2016 | Gig Economy, Human Capital
Stephen Kasriel the CEO of Upwork just wrote an article in Fast Company called “Why the Future of Work will Look a lot like Hollywood.” I agree wholeheartedly and in fact wrote a similar piece years ago on the movie model. I pointed out that It is no...Feb 24, 2016 | Gig Economy, Human Capital
I saw a blog post today from DCR Workforce announcing that there will finally be a “reckoning ” of the gig economy. http://blog.dcrworkforce.com/finally-official-reckoning-gig-economy Like most people who question the value of the gig economy, the...Feb 19, 2016 | Gig Economy, Human Capital, My New Book
Now that I have embarked on my research for the next book on the high-end of the on demand expertise marketplace, I am having a lot of deja vu moments. Certainly, there is the fact, that though I have been gone from my old firm for several years, things have not...Feb 8, 2016 | Gig Economy, Human Capital, My New Book
A recent news item little noticed apart from gig economy wonks like me was the fact that the government is planning to get data on how many workers actually populate the “gig economy.” Labor Secretary, Thomas Perez, announced at the end of January that...Jan 28, 2016 | Human Capital
Expertise and the Independent Consultant I recently reread my book, A New Brand of Expertise, published in 2001. It was a book about, as the tag line said, how ” free agents, independent consultants and interim managers are transforming the world of work.”...
