From the COVID-19 pandemic to the climate crisis, 2021 brought a continuation of many of the challenges that arose in 2020. But while our challenges reached new heights, we watched…
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Time to Fire Your Jerk Boss
Whether you fire everyone on a group Zoom call or dump someone’s last paycheck on their lawn in oily pennies, there are lots of ways to be a jerk boss….
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What Are You Hopeful For?
One rainy day during the holiday break I learned in quick succession that (1) my daughter and her boyfriend’s entire family in New York were sick with COVID; (2) the…
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Gen Z Driving the Changing Demographics of Independent Work
Gen Z has often been called “the most entrepreneurial generation ever.” The data increasingly shows this to be true. 2021 represents a watershed year in terms of the generational makeup…
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Resignation, Reset and Renewal: Charting a New Path Forward At Work – Part II
This edition is the second of two looking at the implications of what is being referred to in varying degrees as “The Great Resignation” and “The Great Reset.” As with…
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What are DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations)? And Why Should You Care
The simplest way to describe DAOs – distributed autonomous organizations – is that they are online communities owned and controlled by their members. The basics are a group of people…
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Increasing Career Opportunities in the Time of the Great Reset
Every so often, the employment landscape takes a significant shift. This can be the result of new technology, changes in workers’ rights and industrial needs. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has…
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The Number of Digital Nomads Surged Again in 2021
The pandemic-driven seismic shift to remote led to continued strong growth in the number of American digital nomads in 2021. The 2021 State of Independence research study found that 15.5…
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The Best Way to Battle Burnout
The recent Vox Media/Watermark survey of professional women was full of nuggets about what women want from the future of work. Hybrid and remote work, more time off, more mentoring…
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Looking on the bright side in the new normal
Meetings at work have long been derided as not-really-work. A popular internet meme classifies meetings as “a practical alternative to work.” Now that meeting online has become the new normal,…
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