Tag: gig economy
Many travel nurses opt for temporary assignments because of the autonomy...
Ivan Gan, University of Houston-Downtown
Travel nurses take short-term contracts that can require long commutes or temporarily living...
How soaring inflation can be particularly harmful for young people
Shampa Roy-Mukherjee, University of East London; Ejike Udeogu, Coventry University, and Michael Harrison, University of East London
Inflation rates...
OnlyFans controversy highlights the bind facing most gig workers
Dilan Thampapillai, UNSW and Sarah Steele, University of Cambridge
The saga over subscription-based social media platform OnlyFans, which announced...
Five ways Black Friday shopping will be different in 2020
Amna Khan, Manchester Metropolitan University
Friday November 27 marks a key date in the UK’s retail calendar as consumers head online to take advantage of...
Why Uber Works will probably be great for businesses but not...
Shainaz Firfiray, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
Uber is still best known as a ride-hailing platform but it has been branching out into other...
How Uber and other digital platforms could trick us using behavioral...
Abbey Stemler, Indiana University; Joshua E. Perry, Indiana University, and Todd Haugh, Indiana University
Uber’s business model is incredibly simple: It’s a platform that facilitates...
Why the unemployment rate will never get to zero percent –...
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University
The U.S. Labor Department continues to release wonderful news for U.S. workers.
Just this week, on Sept. 20, the agency said...
End of the gig economy? Don’t read too much into a...
Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
A recent California Supreme Court ruling is being hailed as a “game changer” for the gig economy.
That’s...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
