A Little Tech Support for those Hiding Gifts
Are you one of the many who kept holiday gifts at the office, safe from prying eyes? Gig workers know where we are going with this. For those to whom working remotely is a new concept, the need to find a new place to safely stash gifts is just one more of the many challenges the pandemic has brought on. Fortunately, the folks at HGTV put their creative minds to the task of finding Genius Spots to Hide Gifts. Here are some of our favorite suggestions for all of you IT specialists and project management pros who are now working …
WOOP It Up to Succeed as a Gig Worker
If you want to succeed as a gig worker, whether you are an IT specialist or a graphic designer, it is helpful to think of yourself as an entrepreneur. You need to stay motivated, set goals – financial or otherwise. How much do you need to pay your bills? What type of work would you like to specialize in? What type of clients would you most like to work with? If you could be doing anything you want, what would you be doing? What is stopping you? Those big dreams and how we attain them was the subject of a …
How Important Is Customer Service to IT Services?
The level of talent represented in today’s contingent workforce provides companies with a new way to deliver exceptional quality and service without overburdening the budget. When Gaetano DiNardi, the director of demand generation at Nextiva, responded to the question “How important is customer service to success in business?”, he identified a “strong positive relationship between customer service and business success, no matter how a company defines “’success.’” There is no one-size-fits-all template or magic formula, though. Some companies do well despite a reputation for terrible customer service, while others provide exceptional customer service and struggle to survive. “This positive correlation …
Effective Management of On-Demand Professionals
One of the advantages of using On-Demand Professionals is that you don’t need to worry about the complexities of W2 employee management. On the other hand, when dealing with someone you don’t personally know it can be difficult understand how to motivate them and ensure you’re getting their best work. Here are some strategies for overcoming that challenge. …
Why Join the Gig Economy: The Lure of Building a Portfolio Career
Very few people ever find their “dream job.” Most of us take the good with the bad, tolerating tasks we feel are wasteful, pointless, or simply beneath our skill level. This is why so many experts like you are choosing to join the ranks of the Gig Economy, becoming freelance on-demand professionals. Learn how to build your Portfolio Career and enjoy the advantages of the Gig Economy. …
Businesses Should Look to the Freelance Economy to Deliver Superior Field Service Outcomes
–NICK HEINZMAN with SPEND MATTERS Managing a modern-day field service function presents numerous challenges to business leaders. Consistently getting the right person for a service request to the right place at the right time has only become more difficult in today’s hyper-competitive, on-demand business environment. Because of this, field services spend, which often includes services essential to the functioning of a business (e.g., point-of-sale systems, security cameras), can easily fall victim to cost overruns, variable levels of work quality and external regulatory risks that can affect services outputs. To meet these challenges, businesses have increasingly looked to augment their current W-2 field …
Independent Workers Feeling More Secure
The 2018 MBO Partners State of Independence in America paints a nuanced picture of the 42 million Americans who work independently as independent professionals, contractors, consultants, freelancers, side giggers and more. In this eighth year of the report, the longest-running comprehensive look at the independent workforce, American independents emerge as strong, mature, and satisfied. Even amidst record low unemployment and the strongest jobs market in decades, independent work remains a viable and desirable career path. “People from all industries choose to become independent professionals,” says Gene Zaino, CEO of MBO Partners. “The key word here is ‘choose.'” With each passing …
‘The world is changing:’ Why the contingent workforce isn’t going away
Follow Kathryn Moody on Twitter HR professionals are commonly told to “do more with less. But if necessity is the mother of invention, disruption is the family member looming in the background holding a rolled up newspaper. Tightening resources, changing technologies and frustrated employees calling for more flexibility have forced HR professionals to find adaptable workforce solutions that fit a shifting model. “The world is changing,” Peter Sheahan told HR pros during yesterday’s keynote at WorldatWork’s Total Rewards Conference, citing a running theme for the first day’s sessions. And that change is driving related disruptions to HR strategy, he said. …
The Impact Of Impending Labor Shortages On Field Service
by Michael R. Blumberg One of the most pressing concerns among field service executives is the impending shortage of skilled workers. These concerns are well-founded. The U.S. labor market is expected to face a shortage of approximately 8.2 million workers by 2027, reports Thomas Lee, head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors. The U.S. labor market is expected to face a shortage of approximately 8.2 million workers by 2027 This shortage is fueled by two trends. The first trend is referred to as the “Silver Tsunami.” This is a term that describes the enormous number of employees who are reaching …
Global Field Service Management Market Will Reach USD 6.68 Billion by 2023
(NEW YORK, NEWSWIRE) Zion Market Research has published a new report titled “Field Service Management Market by Solution (Work Order Management, Inventory Management, Customer Management, Mobile Field Service Management, Schedule, Dispatch, & Route Optimization, Billing, Invoicing, & Mobile Payments, and Others), by Deployment Mode (On-premises and Cloud), for Verticals (BFSI, Manufacturing, Telecom & IT, Retail, Transportation & Logistics, Healthcare, and Others) – Global Industry Perspective, Comprehensive Analysis and Forecast, 2017 – 2023”. According to the report, global field service management market was valued at approximately USD 2.86 Billion in 2017 and is expected to reach approximately USD 6.68 Billion by …
