contract workers

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Success

Workers are making over $1 million by secretly holding down multiple gigs—and they’re doing it all within the 40-hour workweek

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Bosses are catching on to their ‘overemployed’ staff—one worker says they’re making $3K a day doing 5 jobs
Success

Bosses are catching on to their ‘overemployed’ staff—one worker says they’re making $3K a day doing 5 jobs

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July 3, 2025
Kevin O'Leary
Success

‘Shark Tank’ investor Kevin O’Leary says only a third of people can become successful entrepreneurs—and the rest will never be ‘free’

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Courtney Allen, freelancer and entrepreneur.
Success

This millennial turned her passion for making PowerPoints into a $4 million business

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A Walt Disney Co. employee supporter holds a sign during a rally in Anaheim, California, US, on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Last month 1,700 Disneyland Resort
Business

Disney has successfully averted a strike of thousands of its theme-park workers

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July 24, 2024
I’m paid $14 an hour to rate AI-generated Google search results. Subcontractors like me do key work but don’t get fair wages or benefits
Commentary

I’m paid $14 an hour to rate AI-generated Google search results. Subcontractors like me do key work but don’t get fair wages or benefits

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May 3, 2024
EBay is cutting 1,000 jobs—1 of every 11 employees—as it tries to be ‘more nimble’ in a ‘challenging’ economic environment
Finance

EBay is cutting 1,000 jobs—1 of every 11 employees—as it tries to be ‘more nimble’ in a ‘challenging’ economic environment

By Spencer Soper and Bloomberg
January 24, 2024
a picture of a person opening the uber app next to a cab with uber's logo
Lifestyle

Uber warns job losses would be ‘equivalent to VW going out of business’ if a new EU law to turn gig workers into de facto employees is passed

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September 20, 2023
Authors Sarita Gupta (left) and Erica Smiley
Leadership

Unions are making their biggest comeback since the ’60s. Here’s how workers are winning, according to 2 longtime labor organizers

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April 26, 2022
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Tech

Facebook Raises Pay for Thousands of Its U.S. Contract Workers

By Kurt Wagner and Bloomberg
May 13, 2019
Freelance Screeners Sue Netflix for Employment Benefits
Tech

Freelance Screeners Sue Netflix for Employment Benefits

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Microsoft Opens Flagship Store On New York's Fifth Avenue
Tech

Microsoft Is Fighting a New Rule on How Corporations Must Treat Contract Workers

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June 16, 2016
Lyft Offers Millions More To Settle Driver Lawsuit
Tech

Lyft Offers Millions More To Settle Driver Lawsuit

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May 12, 2016
The Hamptons Lure Uber Top Drivers Amid NYC Slow Summer Weekends
Tech

Uber Gets Hit With Two More Lawsuits Over Driver Wages

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May 2, 2016
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Tech

Why This Valet Parking Startup Gave Up on Its Uber-Like Service

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April 11, 2016

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