Remote Contracting is one of the most rewarding career options available today.  You can work from any location and make your own hours.  However, it does have its challenges.   As a contractor, you are consistently undercharged for your work or are facing disputes over hours worked. And then there is the dreaded feast or famine cycle of income.  Some months you have more work than you can handle.  And other months, you wonder where your next paycheck is going to c...

Some companies are recognizing their employees’ social consciences by offering paid time off for political involvement, and even covering bail for employees arrested while peacefully protesting. When Alexandra Millatmal, a co-instructor at Omaha Code School, wanted time off on March 8 to participate in a Day Without a Woman, she wasn’t sure what to do. “I didn’t know if I should be asking for paid time off, or if I should just not show up for work,” she says...

The demand for top talent is monumental, and the process of finding and hiring the best workers can be excruciating. There are many marketplaces on the web where one can go to find talent, but how do you know that their work is quality? Reviews aren’t always reliable, and there is stiff competition on many gig platforms, making the prices undercut, the stakes lower and the work shoddy. Toptal, founded in 2010, aims to relieve the difficulties of hiring freelancers. Developers, designers...

Remote working could help alleviate the refugee crisis and reduce crime – that’s the bold claim from one business leader who’s developed a safe way for employers to recruit immigrants, even if they don’t have a permanent address or official bank account. “Refugees in most cases are seen as people who are illiterate and have no value – this is not the reality,” says Lilia Stoyanov, CEO of remote working platform Transformify. “In reality, many...

The war with online piracy is a constant battle for those that are trying to stop it. Web companies are fighting to stay on top of the never ending stream of movies that appear on sites like YouTube every day, or the music that pops up on hundreds of sites online that people are able to download for free whenever they want. Since 2011 there were a few hundred thousand requests for Google to remove links that go to copyrighted materials every single week. That number has now skyrocketed to a stag...