The most immediate and personal thing that hits you when you no longer work for a company, is the loss of social interaction. Naturally, our first instinct is to gravitate towards those more socially oriented sites. We must resist those tendencies, no matter how difficult.

The hiring process at most companies is long, tedious, and often unnecessarily difficult. It is so unpleasant that many people are opting to join the gig economy instead. If you need to hire qualified people, then don’t be that company.

There are often unintended associations with words that can do great harm to intended goals. The term side-hustle probably started with good intentions, but what it stands for now, is not what your business should be aspiring to.

Economists and politicians are intently focused on supply chain issues, but there is an unseen problem coming up from the consumer side of the economy that is impacting the service sector…

Many tech workers took to remote work during the pandemic. The tech industry quickly saw this as a cost-cutting option and worked to make it permanent for many workers. While this was welcomed by many, it came with pay cuts and other compromises.

While it does produce high levels of efficiency, Agile Management’s over-reliance on statistical data to manage people becomes problematic for the people being managed. It is a mistake to apply it to other fields outside of software development.

The entire gig workforce has grown under the pandemic. As such it is now is a growing percentage of the entire economy. Perhaps most importantly, it is becoming a respectable and accepted type of occupation, and no longer a fringe activity.