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Mendeley Brainstorm – The Gig Economy – We Have a Winner!
Many thanks to all those who entered the Mendeley Brainstorm related to The Gig Economy; picking a winner was not easy, however in the end, we selected Rita O’Connell’s post: From the perspective of the dominant companies behind the rise of the gig economy, the prevailing designation of the gig workforce is not one of…
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Mendeley Brainstorm – The Gig Economy: Potent or Precarious?
The “gig economy” is a fact of life. To “Uber” has become a verb. Airbnb is ubiquitous. People sell their skills in short term engagements via freelancing websites. This has opened up a world of low-cost services; however, is the gig economy’s destruction of secure employment worth it? We are looking for the most well…
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