Gig work is gaining credibility, according to Inc.com, and it is changing the expectations for regular full-time employees who see the flexibility of gig work as a benefit they would like to use, too. As I’ve written for Gig Economy Group, every company faces new demands from workers, ranging from workplace flexibility using excellent technical […]
Category: Local On-Demand
Eager to replace people your business processes? Uber is reconsidering its approach to autonomous vehicles after racing ahead with the project in Pittsburgh, the Bay Area, and Arizona, where a fatal accident with an Uber car raised serious safety questions. The company is laying off 100 autonomous car operators after one of them was found […]
Quartz@Work provides a solid analysis of why the United States cannot agree on how many gig workers it has, which I’ve covered elsewhere. The Bureau of Labor Statistics counts only people who dedicate themselves to gig work, not the millions who work a side gig along with a main job. The Federal Reserve gets the […]
Gallup, the surveying organization, has launched an intriguing new publication, The Real Future of Work. A data-intensive publication, the first issue addresses European workers’ sense that they will be able to keep up with automation and how workplace assessment programs align with corporate and personal goals. The publication is worth downloading for its clear charts […]
You will not be able to anticipate everything you will want to learn from a large body of data at first. Starting with a well-documented, flexible metadata model for your content and other data assets will ensure that the learning systems can understand new information in context and, with less work than starting with completely […]
Machine Learning will augment people in a variety of sales settings. AdAge talks about the role of AI in retail in this article. An in-home sales or service provider will also be supported by computer intelligence. For example, a rep will be able to capture customer feedback and personalize recommendations. The article reports that robots […]
“Flexibility” is cited by gig promoters as the benefit that defines on-demand work as better than “traditional employment,” but it often comes at a price. Recent UK rulings suggest that workers must be able to replace themselves — in other words, to subcontract their work — in order to be treated as non-employees. Real independent […]
Local On-Demand Services need people representing brands and, importantly, customer experience. At Gig Economy Group, we are building tools to extend personal selling. We debuted at the Direct Selling Association Conference with LifeVantage, our first commercial customer. After speaking with Eazl‘s Davis Jones about this idea, he riffs smartly on it in this video. Here’s […]
Word. The on-demand worker, who may transition to a full-time, still flexible, arrangement, must be onboarded and, more so, made familiar and confident when using your branded content and selling tools. You can’t afford to skip the onboarding step with gig workers, but many employers do it, anyway. They don’t run background checks, provide training, […]
Yesterday, Lyft joined Uber in the bikesharing business, and today Alphabet follows suit. Lime, which has placed bikes in dozens of U.S. and European cities, will be teamed with Waymo, Alphabet/Google’s autonomous car business to provide multi-modal transportation services. The round totals $300 million and values the company at $1.1 billion. The “adjacency phenomenon” is […]