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| Mar 10, 2022 | Freelancing 101: A Guide To Hiring The Right Team And Support | Freelancers are driving the economy and shaping the future of work. Here are some guidelines to ... [+]o finding resources and hiring the right team to grow your business. getty |
| Dec 5, 2021 | 6 Lessons From Publishing 7 Guest Blog Posts | Some say that the age of writing guest blog posts is over and some stand by it for growing a brand. Regardless of where you stand on guest blog posts — here are a few lessons I learned from publishing guest articles during the last year and... |
| Jul 31, 2021 | Simplifying Retirement And Benefits For Freelancers, Catch Raises $12M In Series A | Catch helps freelancers and gig workers set aside money for taxes and savings, whether their income ... [+] is coming from one source or dozens. Catch |
| May 13, 2021 | Health Insurance Tips for Gig Workers | May 13, 2021 5 min read This story originally appeared on MarketBeat
It goes without saying that you need health insurance, even when you participate as a gig worker and take on contract work instead of working for an employer. You might no... |
| Apr 20, 2021 | UPWORK INC.
Upwork : 2020 Annual Impact Report | 2020 Annual Impact Report
Building Back Better
2020 ANNUAL IMPACT REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS 2
03 Introduction
10 Unlocking Opportunity
20 Our Team
Business Ethics & Governance
Environment
Appendix
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| Mar 25, 2021 | Mutualism And The Next Economy | Sara HorowitzGuerin Blask/August Image |
| Feb 15, 2021 | Pandorahub: Helping Freelancers Live And Work In Nature | Gettygetty |
| Dec 16, 2020 | How To Start A Freelance Business On The Side | Working from home has encouraged more full-time workers to start a freelance business.getty |
| Nov 11, 2020 | Freelance Childcare: Why We Need To Solve This Problem Made Worse By Covid-19 | getty |
| Apr 8, 2020 | 6 Ways Freelancers Can Get Financial Help Right Now | Alexander Mils |
| Mar 20, 2020 | Small Business Relief Tracker: Funding, Grants And Resources For Business Owners Grappling With Coronavirus | A sadly familiar sign in the window of a small business. But help is on the way from many sources.Getty Images |
| Feb 6, 2020 | How to retain freelancers and gig workers | https://d1rytvr7gmk1sx.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190213_Macy_GigJobs_Karen.mp4 Must-read CXO coverage
Power BI vs. Tableau
ATS: The best applicant tracking systems
Apple, Microsoft top list of most ethical tech companies
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| Jan 15, 2020 | What Freelancers Should Consider When Shopping For Long-Term Disability Insurance | According to the Council for Disability Awareness, musculoskeletal disorders, which can include ... [+] arthritis, are the most common reason for a long-term disability claimGetty |
| Sep 19, 2019 | Why this Seattle tech entrepreneur is trying to solve health insurance for freelancers in Texas | The Decent team in Austin, Texas. (Decent Photo)
After selling a startup and leaving full-time work for the life of an independent consultant, Nick Soman stumbled across the idea for his next company. It came in the form of a health insuran... |
| Sep 19, 2019 | Most freelancers are millennials, but retirees are quickly catching up | Advertisement
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Older Americans are carving out their own corner of the gig economy.
More baby boomers are turning to freelancing to earn extra income, bulk up retirement funds, or transition into retirem... |
| Oct 31, 2018 | Freelancers rights come of age as gig economy booms | Gig workers, freelancers, sharing economy workers — call them what you want to, but the millions who drive you around in Lyfts, deliver your Seamless or work on piecemeal projects from home have become a staple of the American workforce — a... |
| May 31, 2017 | The Highs and Lows of Ditching the 9-to-5 for Side Gigs | When you hear the word "career," most people picture the classic nine-to-five job. Whether sitting at a desk in an office or working behind the counter at a bank, the idea of a traditional career is reinforced by society ad nausea... |
| Apr 3, 2017 | Inside Etsy’s surprisingly ambitious policy agenda | The shift toward independent work has been alternatively dubbed the “gig economy” and the “1099 economy,” and it’s come with lots of gloomy pronouncements about the crumbling of financial stability for many workers in the U.S.
Tech companie... |
| Dec 2, 2016 | 5 Apps to Help Freelancers Manage Their Business | The continuous rise of a global freedom economy is providing opportunity to have more autonomy and pursue personal ambitions. According to a recent survey taken by the independent research firm Edelman Berland, more than 53 million American... |
| Nov 28, 2016 | Why these millennials are abandoning America forever | More On: millennials
$3M solid gold avocado toast meant to be 'symbol' of generation 'Blue’s Clues' host Steve Burns explains why he left show in emotional video This $7M avocado mansion features a tasty spread on the North Carolina coast G... |
| Nov 28, 2016 | Why these millennials are abandoning America forever | More On: millennials
Why millennials drive cancel culture I'm middle-aged and still going on spring break: 'Another year of debauchery!' Millennial, Gen Z women earn more money than men in these cities 'Entitled' millennial generation 'neve... |
| Aug 25, 2016 | Freelancers Could Play A Key Role In Your Business' Expansion | August 25, 2016 3 min read
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Over the past few years, the “freelance economy” has captur... |
| Aug 24, 2016 | LinkedIn’s ProFinder service to find freelancers now available to all in the U.S. | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Last Fall, LinkedIn launched a pilot program in a... |
| Aug 24, 2016 | LinkedIn’s ProFinder service to find freelancers now available to all in the U.S. | Last Fall, LinkedIn launched a pilot program in an effort to help connect members with independent contractors and freelancers. The company has been pleased with the program’s progress, and today LinkedIn is opening up its latest product — ... |
| Mar 7, 2016 | Meet Hurdlr, the finance app that’s trying to make life easier for freelancers | American writer and satirist Bill Bryson has a really great essay on tax forms. It begins like this:
Enclosed is your 1997 United States Internal Revenue Service Tax Form 1040-ES OCR: ‘Estimated Tax for Self-Employed Individuals’. You may u... |
| Feb 16, 2016 | Entrepreneurs: Here's How To Make Sure You Get Paid | February 16, 2016 7 min read
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If you're an entrepreneur-freelancer, client payments are your lifeblood. Should clients neglect to pay, business operations grind to a halt. And, i... |
| Jan 4, 2016 | Freelancers Will Dominate the Workforce by 2020 | This is the time of year when many people are speculating about the future. They're wondering what the world is going to look like in one year, five years, ten years. They're looking at models and statistics to try to accurately predict and... |
| Oct 1, 2015 | Half Of U.S. Freelancers Wouldn’t Take A Job No Matter What | Venture-backed Upwork (formerly Elance-oDesk) and the labor organization Freelancers Union just commissioned a study by the global research firm Edelman Berland, and it’s chock-full of fascinating information about the state of freelancing ... |
| Aug 31, 2015 | 8 tips for making it as a freelancer | Behold the rise of America’s freelance economy: a shift in the traditional American economic paradigm spurred by a rapidly growing army of freelancers, consultants, independent contractors and other on-demand workers. Together, they’re stim... |
| Jun 17, 2015 | Uber’s contractor fight: Here’s what it means for the wider ‘on-demand’ economy | Earlier today, it came to light that Uber recently lost a case that could eventually force the company to classify drivers as full time employees. The decision was made in March and became public because Uber filed an appeal yesterday.
The ... |
| Jun 17, 2015 | Uber’s contractor fight: Here’s what it means for the wider ‘on-demand’ economy | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Earlier today, it came to light that Uber recentl... |
| Jun 13, 2015 | In the Future, Employees Won’t Exist | Tad Milbourn Contributor
Tad Milbourn is CEO and co-founder of Tiempo.
Contract work is becoming the new normal. Consider Uber: The ride-sharing startup has 160,000 contractors, but just 2,000 employees. That’s an astonishing ratio of 80 to... |
| Jun 11, 2015 | Uber ‘micropreneurs’ and the sharing economy signal the end of work as we know it | If you are a driver for Uber or ride-sharing platform Lyft, a host on AirBnB, or a “tasker” doing odd jobs on TaskRabbit, you may consider yourself what has been recently labelled a “micropreneur”.
Making money from your idle capacity – be ... |
| Jun 10, 2015 | Uber ‘micropreneurs’ signal the end of work as we know it | If you are a driver for Uber or ride-sharing platform Lyft, a host on AirBnB, or a “tasker” doing odd jobs on TaskRabbit, you may consider yourself what has been recently labelled a “micropreneur”.
Making money from your idle capacity – be ... |
| Sep 8, 2014 | My Top 5 Free Places to Cowork in DC | This Tuesday, September 9, Tech Cocktail is holding its DC Mixer & Startup Showcase at the Crystal Tech Fund.
A recently released survey on the state of the freelance economy in the United States revealed that there are now currently 54... |
| Aug 15, 2014 | YC-Backed Zen99 Makes Life Easier For Freelancers With Finance And Insurance Tools | Freelancers and contractors are a rapidly growing part of the workforce. Without benefits, however, many struggle with issues like figuring out how much of their earnings to withhold for taxes and finding insurance providers.
A new startup ... |
| Jun 27, 2014 | 3 Legal Precautions in Hiring Freelancers | June 27, 2014 4 min read
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Free • lanc • er: A person who sells services to employers without a long-term commitment to any of them. --American Heritage Dictionary
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| Dec 22, 2013 | How Elance’s merger with oDesk will impact the freelance space | Elance and oDesk, the two largest freelance labor marketplaces on the planet, announced a merger this week. The two have been competing in the freelance space for over a decade and decided to leverage their respective resources to “create f... |
| Dec 22, 2013 | How Elance’s merger with oDesk will impact the freelance space | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Elance and oDesk, the two largest freelance labor... |
| Mar 16, 2013 | If You Think 10% Is A Good Transaction Fee For Your Marketplace, Then It Will Struggle | Editor’s note: Sunil Rajaraman is the co-founder and CEO of Scripted.com, a marketplace for businesses to create content at scale; Scripted has a pool of 80,000 freelance writers and 1,000 customers. Follow Sunil on Twitter @subes01.
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| Jan 7, 2013 | The Best Books to Boost Your Career in 2013 | As part of my job as a career coach and as the Work and Volunteering blogger for Next Avenue, I make it a point to keep up with the latest career books. So to help you get 2013 off to a strong start, I wanted to share my favorite work-relat... |
| Feb 27, 2012 | ZenCash launches collections service for SMBs | A new way for small businesses to easily manage receivables, collections
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It's great to have sales. It's even better to get paid. As a small-business owner one of the challenges I've run into is getting paid in a timely manner, for some se... |
| Apr 30, 2010 | Being An Independent Consultant Means Playing Two Roles: Freelancer and Bill Collector | In one survey, 77% of freelancers said they’d had issues collecting payments from clients. Independent contractors can feel like they have to take on the second career of bill collector. The time it takes to collect on an overdue invoice ca... |
| I've been a freelancer for 10 years. Here are 4 strategies that have helped me get paid what I deserve. | Freelance writer Melissa Petro recommends always negotiating rates with a new editor or publication. Melissa Petro
Melissa Petro is a freelance writer and mom of two based in New York.
In over 10 years as a freelancer, Petro says she's lear... |
| The first thing to do if you’re starting a freelance side hustle, from this 52,000-person freelancing group | When Tia Meyers was still new to freelancing, she had a nonpayment issue with one of her clients and wanted to know how other freelancers had navigated the problem. She posted the question to Facebook and was floored by the response — both ... |
