Jacob Morgan | Best-Selling Author, Speaker, & Futurist | Leadership | Future of Work | Employee Experience

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Future of work

Four Things Entrepreneurs Need To Know In The Freelancer Economy

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Entrepreneurship has always been the lifeblood of the business world, but things are changing with the growth of the freelancer economy. Instead of having to go create your own company to be your own boss, people can become contracted employees or gig workers to piece together a career that is perfect for them. What does this mean for companies and freelancers? We turned to Doug DeVos, president of Amway, a company that has decades of experience with freelancers and entrepreneurship. There are lots of things to learn from this interesting intersection of the modern workplace, but here are four top takeaways. […]

Employee experience, Future of work

Does Employee Experience Matter in the Growing Gig Economy?

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Does focusing on employee experience even make sense in a world that is supposedly going to be dominated by freelancers and short-term employees? There’s been a lot of debate and confusion around this space, so it only makes sense to explore what’s going on here. Alternative work arrangements include everyone from Uber drivers to construction workers who work on independent contracts to those of us who work with staffing agencies for temporary employment. […]

Future of work

How Will the Gig Economy Affect How We Work?

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This week’s discussion was all about the gig economy, which is something that affects a lot of community members directly, either as freelancers themselves or people who work for organizations that use contractors. There’s a lot of names for this type of work—freelancer, gig worker, temp worker, contractor, 1099 employee, the list goes on and on. No matter what you call them, they are becoming more vital in the economy. […]

Future of work

The Evolution Of Freelance Work

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I thought it would be interesting to take a look at how freelance work has evolved and where it actually came from. Check out the graphic below to see how things have changed over the past 200 years. This will give you an idea of where freelancing started, where it is today, and where it’s going. […]

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