As a California voter, I hate the proposition process. I have always felt it was inappropriate for the masses to legislate, since that is what we elect our state representatives to do. Unfortunately, those representatives don’t always do a good job. They passed a law in late 2019, AB5, designed to require gig platforms to… Continue reading California’s Prop 22 – The Devil is in the Details
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The Gig Economy Deserves Better
The recent passage of #AB2257 shows just how ill-conceived #AB5 was, and how little the lawmakers understood about the gig economy. I may not write laws, but I write books. When I submit a manuscript to my editor, I am thrilled when the suggested changes are minor; I know I have done a good job… Continue reading The Gig Economy Deserves Better
“Agency” and the Gig Economy
Deloitte Research and the MIT Sloan Management Review published an interesting report recently entitled “Opportunity Marketplaces.” Their premise is that companies should create internal talent platforms which are employee directed and enable workers to develop new skills and investigate new intellectually challenging corporate projects. By providing such opportunity marketplaces, employees will be able to exercise… Continue reading “Agency” and the Gig Economy
Updating “Thriving in the Gig Economy”
Perhaps because of AB5, the new law regulating independent contractors in California, I have been getting a lot of calls from journalists, think tanks and thought leaders about the #GigEconomy. (I even got one from a reporter in Iowa on the eve of the caucus. “Really?”, I asked, “shouldn’t you be writing about the election?”… Continue reading Updating “Thriving in the Gig Economy”
Books for a Disruptive World
At the National Association of Corporate Directors Summit last week, Admiral James Stavrids, the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO gave a talk on global risks. When asked how we as Board members can be most prepared, his answer was to read books, and think deeply. In our digital culture, twitter feeds too often supplant… Continue reading Books for a Disruptive World
An Escape Room for the Board Room
Escape rooms have become a very popular entertainment option in the last decade, where participants play an escape game to collectively discover clues, solve puzzles and ultimately achieve the goal of escaping the room. By the end of 2017, there were over 8000 venues worldwide. Our consulting team at the Myers-Briggs Company saw this trend… Continue reading An Escape Room for the Board Room
Politics and the #GigEconomy
I suppose I should be happy that the #gigeconomy is at least being mentioned by some of the presidential candidates. That said, I am disappointed with their frame of reference. Mayor Pete has been the one who has proposed allowing gig workers to unionize. In so doing, he had made the mistake which many people… Continue reading Politics and the #GigEconomy
New Data on the Gig Economy: 5 Takeaways
July 1, 2019 | Blog | 0 comments My favorite source of gig economy data, The State of Independence in America, recently announced its 2019 findings. When I was writing my most recent book, Thriving in the Gig Economy, it seemed like a new report was being released every month, so trying to reconcile the results was often a challenge. (I… Continue reading New Data on the Gig Economy: 5 Takeaways
A New Development in Independent Contractor Compliance
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) today gave independent contractors a boost when it reversed a prior decision from the Obama era which had limited the definition of independent contractors. This reversal should be a boon to some players in the #GigEconomy as well as the platforms that enable services and the companies that secure… Continue reading A New Development in Independent Contractor Compliance
The Government Shutdown and the #GigEconomy
There have been several articles so far this year about how furloughed federal workers are using the gig economy to make ends meet; A recent Fast Company article indicated that services offered on the digital talent platform, Fiverr, in the Washington DC metro area increased by 41%. That means that the number of people putting… Continue reading The Government Shutdown and the #GigEconomy
