Noted today, the attractive places to gig. Care.com ranks highest, perhaps because it requires the most skill and cannot be reduced to the cheapest price for caring for an elder? “Yeah, I want care for my Dad, but only the cheapest care,” is not a phrase you hear a lot. THESE ARE THE TOP 10 […]
Food delivery is consuming the soup business. Campbell’s Soup appears to be losing out when consumers want a fast easy lunhc or dinner. The analysts on the CNBC segment make the point that GrubHub’s current valuation is momentum-driven and that Campbell’s is underpriced. What about Campbell’s delivery? When does the food brand move to engage […]
California’s gig economy is not sufficiently broad and deep — that is, there are not enough types of work to create real differentiation of labor — to support prosperity, as 47 percent of surveyed gig workers say they are impoverished. Note, too, that Californians are suggesting to their children move elswhere for better opportunities. If […]
Sarah Kessler, author of “Gigged: The end of the job and the Future of Work,” appeared on PBS’ NewsHour this weekend. She offered some interesting and cautionary words about the future of work that contrast and reinforce ideas expressed by Louis Hyman in The New York Times on Saturday in a piece, “It’s Not Technology […]
ClassPass, the New York-based health club subscription service, raised a new round of $85 million to expand domestically and in Asia. Here, in a nutshell, is what this trend means: Real estate is completely fungible. Location, location, and location still matter, but the physical property must be tuned to what product or services are in […]