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• Contract Jobs on the Rebound

  
  The Darton Equation — Authority: 115
  A picture tells a thousand words.  Or in this case, a picture tells a great REBOUND story for contract jobs. Yesterday The Charlotte Observer ran a front page story (courtesy of The New York Times ) entitled “Surge in hiring for temporary workers” .  The bottom line…USA businesses are hiring more and ...
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• Taubman on Care Work and the Economy

  
  Workplace Prof Blog — Authority: 538
  Phoebe Taubman, a fellow at Equal Justice Works with A Better Balance: The Work and Family Legal Center has written an issue brief for the American Constitution Society, entitled Free Riding on Families: Why the American Workplace Needs to Change...
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• The Annual Review: 2009’s Top 10 Workplace Trends

  
  The Hiring Site — Authority: 122
  The year is almost over, which of course means it’s time for a completely unprecedented, unexpected-in-every-way “top 10 of 2009” list… Here, I give you my list of the 10 biggest trends we saw this year in the world of workforce management.  (Notice anything I missed? Let me know in the comments section ...
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• Elance’s MVP for 2009: PHP

  
  WebWorkerDaily — Authority: 654
  Freelance jobs marketplace Elance has posted its Work Index (a kind of monthly “Hot 100″  that analyzes over 100,000 recent job postings and shows the skills that are most in demand) for December, together with some data for the year 2009 as a whole. Here’s the top 10 leaderboard for December: PHP HTML ...
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• The Quirky World of “Manspaces” and Bachelor Pads

  
  WebWorkerDaily — Authority: 654
  Our working environments are an area of great interest here at WebWorkerDaily, with some great advice from our writers on equipping and styling a home office for pleasure and productivity. So I was interested to see this interesting tongue-in-cheek talk from Sam Martin on “ manspaces ” at last summer’s TED ...
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• What I’m Looking Forward to in 2010

  
  Watching the Watchers — Authority: 118
  I still cant really believe that the “noughties” have nearly gone; itll be 2010 in less than a month. Ive been thinking about 2010 (what an impossibly futuristic date that sounds!) and what it might hold in store for me as a web worker.
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• Crowdsourcing from the Developing World

  
  WebWorkerDaily — Authority: 654
  Last month saw the launch of CrowdFlower , an interesting venture that applies Dolores Labs’ Labor-as-a-Service platform to the non-profit “micro employment” foundation Samasource . We’ve previously covered web-based labor and outsourcing services — notably Shorttask and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk ...
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• AMEE and AlertMe: Measuring a Home Worker’s Carbon Footprint

  
  WebWorkerDaily — Authority: 654
  The United Nations’ historic Climate Change Conference, the COP15 , hosted in Copenhagen ( read more coverage over on our sister site, Earth2Tech ) — has seen the usual political controversies, notably leaked emails from the UK Met Office. I suspect what the world’s citizens are looking for isn’t ...
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• What I’m Looking Forward to in 2010

  
  WebWorkerDaily — Authority: 654
  I still can’t really believe that the “ noughties ” have nearly gone; it’ll be 2010 in less than a month. I’ve been thinking about 2010 (what an impossibly futuristic date that sounds!) and what it might hold in store for me as a web worker: Faster, Better Browsers The ongoing browser war means that ...
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• NLRB: Number of R Cases Drops

  
  Workplace Prof Blog — Authority: 538
  The National Labor Relations Board released its Fiscal Year 2009 Performance and Accountability Report this week. According to the report, although the Boards caseload remained steady, unfair labor practice (ULP) charges increased slightly and representation election petitions decreased by 14.4%....
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• New Coworking Space Roundup

  
  WebWorkerDaily — Authority: 654
  Coworking spaces are really popping up all over. After my post earlier this week about a new venture in the Twin Cities , I’ve been contacted about several interesting spaces that have either recently opened or are due to open soon: Lightbulb Coworking, Charlotte, N.C . Charlotte’s first coworking space ...
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• Implementing a Successful Corporate Microblogging Strategy

  
  WebWorkerDaily — Authority: 654
  It can be very difficult to get an organization to accept corporate microblogging as a means of facilitating closer collaboration. However, while I am the first to say that changing an organization’s communications model can be a challenge, it’s not impossible. You and your team might be looking to a corporate ...
  3 weeks ago

• “I’m Out of the Office Today…”

  
  WebWorkerDaily — Authority: 654
  A new study suggests that almost half (45 percent) of the workers at small- and medium-sized businesses spend most (75 percent) of their time out of their offices. In fact, only 15 percent of the businesses surveyed reported that all of their employees work in a single location. The survey indicates that these ...
  4 weeks ago

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