Can Employees Really Work However They Want?

McKinsey & Company found similar trends across Europe and estimated that more than 100 million people across the United States and Europe are now “nontraditional” employees. McKinsey compared these workers to “traditional” employees and found that they were as satisfied or more satisfied across fifteen different work characteristics, such as in

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Is the promise of gig-economy platforms to deliver high quality at low prices an illusion? Is the truth that the benefits of gig work come at the expense of (mostly desperate) freelancers? As a businessperson who wants to do the right thing, should you ever say no when someone is willing to provide high-quality work for little money? These question

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Dans ce contexte, le désir d’une libération du temps de travail constitue l’un des facteurs essentiels d’attractivité des plateformes de type Uber auprès de travailleurs peu qualifiés. Pour ces derniers, la flexibilité offerte par ces plateformes, qui alimente une nouvelle forme de travail précaire, est avant tout synonyme de liberté. En ce sens, l

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Employment at a company is itself a bundle of various services and infrastructure, and there’s an opportunity for platforms to replace what workers lose when they leave traditional employment arrangements. For micro-entrepreneurs, the tradeoff of independence is a de-risked company environment for learning, pivoting, and risk-taking—and there’s an ... See more

They wanted democratic control over the firm; they got employee stock ownership plans. They wanted less work, a life less dominated by demands of the boss; they got fewer jobs and work fragmented into gigs. They wanted less hierarchical trade unions; they got union-busting. They wanted freedom for creative pursuits; they got, in Fisher’s terms, “ma

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