Chris is the President & COO of FlexTal. He brings 20+ years of experience in Customer Success, UI/UX, design, and marketing - including time within start-ups, agencies, and enterprise orgs. Chris has also served as a University adjunct professor in Advertising & Public Relations for several years.
Change is rarely convenient. It interrupts our routines, challenges our assumptions, and often requires more energy than we’d like to spend. But it’s also the thing that forces us to grow. For me, nothing has highlighted this chaos more than the intersection of relocation and remote work. Not just once, but over and over – again and again.
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Raise your hand if you own a car. Okay, you don’t actually need to raise your hand, but play along as we talk about how ride-share apps as a guide for hiring.
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You know the drill. You meticulously craft the perfect job description and moments after you publish it to your favorite “now hiring” website your inbox becomes a battlefield of résumés, cover letters, and LinkedIn connection requests. You brace yourself for the impending onslaught of great candidates and start to dig in. The first one looks promising — until you open it and see an uber-generic, copy-paste cover letter starting with the disappointingly non-specific “To whom it may concern…” The next applicant boasts “exceptional attention to detial” (yes, spelled exactly like that). Others list “breathing” and “social media posting” as skills. There’s even a group of submissions that claim to be “fast learners” while admitting to no experience related to the job description.
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In today’s fast-paced business world, people get stressed and exhausted. It’s no longer just a case of the Mondays; burnout is a common challenge that affects both leaders and employees. In most workplaces, people find constant pressure to deliver results, meet deadlines, and stay ahead of the competition. This work-related stress can significantly affect employees, even the most experienced business leaders. To avoid burnout, many in the workforce reach for the most common magic potion: caffeine. However, there is another, more powerful solution. No, not a double shot of espresso. This other business secret weapon can help you and your team avoid burnout while simultaneously revolutionizing your operations: freelancers.
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Let’s be honest; over the last decade, the workplace has changed. It’s not simply that executives no longer rely on Blackberry or Palm; the whole landscape has experienced significant transformation. Gone are the days when cubicle-laden offices and 9-to-5 jobs were the only options. With the rise of the gig economy, flexible talent and remote workers have become an integral part of a global workforce. However, building solid relationships with freelancers and full-time employees remains essential for successful businesses despite physical distance and differing work arrangements.
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With prices for everyday items on the rise and most Americans facing the tightening of their belts, people are searching for creative ways to increase their income. After exhaustingly checking the sofa cushions for coins, many people have turned to gig work to help make ends meet. As a result, the gig economy has rapidly transformed the traditional workforce, with more and more individuals seeking freelance work to supplement their income. In fact, a recent study found that nearly half of American workers have a side hustle and are participating in the gig economy in some capacity.
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Cell phones didn’t eradicate telephone calls, but when did you last use a rotary phone?
While companies continue to tighten their belts, lay people off, and cut full-time positions, the gig economy is growing. As a result, contractors and companies are finding the flexible talent model to be a sustainable approach to the current employment landscape.
The rise of the gig economy has revolutionized the way we think about work and employment. As more and more people seek flexible work arrangements and more companies turn to contract workers to fill staffing gaps, augment team skillsets, or for specialized projects, freelance marketplaces are becoming an increasingly crucial component of the modern economy.
If you’ve been living under a rock for the last few months, you may not have heard the news about the wide-sweeping layoffs. Downsizing has happened even across industries previously thought of as flourishing or stable. As a result, many of those affected by the term-du-jour “employee headcount reductions” have started to consider working flexibly as contractors and navigating from full-time to freelance.
We’ve been quarantined for months now and some of us have gotten quite comfortable with the work-from-home lifestyle.