Amid coronavirus outbreak, several countries have declared a state of emergency which resulted in closed restaurants, cafes, shops, hotels and the list goes on. In some cases, only the supermarkets and pharmacies could stay open. In Italy and France, people are not allowed to leave their homes unless they have a valid reason like buying food, medicines or visiting a doctor. Coronavirus outbreak has an extremely negative effect on the global economy and especially in those countries and c...

These days, due to coronavirus outbreak, many businesses have asked their employees to work from home. Even more conservative organizations that would never consider remote work before have been forced to do so. Many countries have imposed travel bans and an unprecedented country-wide quarantine has been announced in Italy, Spain and Bulgaria. At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stoc...

When we started Transformify 5 years ago, all-remote companies were rare and remote work was seen as a ‘’perk’’ tech startups would offer to their top tech talent to keep them happy and loyal. Digital nomads were mostly successful tech entrepreneurs who had made an exit and could afford to work and travel, traders, marketers, photographers and the like. Even nowadays, when it comes to work from home jobs, the results of a common Google keyword search will strik...

Jordan Husney is the CEO & Founder of Parabol. He leads multiple facets of Parabol’s growth and success by overseeing new talent acquisition, funding and product development. Jordan holds several patents in distributed systems and wireless technology and lives with his family in Los Angeles, California.   Jordan, why do you hire gig workers and freelancers? Is it because the creative industry has switched to a project-based model versus the retainer model that was...

For more than a year, Wirecard, one of the biggest European fintech companies, has been under fire due to allegations of fraud and ‘’creative accounting’’. Not for the first time, though. Similar allegations have been posed back in 2016 by a mysterious research & investigations agency called Zatarra. The fact that Zatarra was largely unknown to the broad public did not prevent investor’s panic. The stock price of Wirecard plunged almost immediately and i...