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Reeves’ Budget raids savings, family legacies, pensions and self-employed “wealth”. But on the…
“Rachel Reeves says the government wants to make the best place in the world for businesses, but has landed a handful of blows to business owners today,” Matthew Knight, Chief Freelance Officer at The Independency Co., tells The Freelance…
Peter Dawe: “Employees are taxed, robots are not! Ask any economist what the consequence is…”
With humans scrambling to secure well-paid work and financial breathing room, the cost of employing people and AI is closing down job vacancies — everywhere. And leaving a gaping hole in Treasury coffers.
“This is not going to…
When did working become a crime in the UK?
The UK workforce is on the precipice, and Westminster isn’t acting fast enough
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Britain's workforce is suffering. Unemployment is rising. Living costs are soaring. And finding work that actually pays the bills? Nearly…
Fiverr opts for “AI-first” strategy and parts ways with 30% of its staff
We dissect the language and actions of one of the latest CEOs to take an “AI-first” approach to business and what that could mean for mass unemployment, economic stability and individual earning power
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Fiverr's 2024 Impact…
Salesforce’s aim to become agentic enterprise could spur copycat mass redundancies across customer…
Big tech CEOs are celebrating AI triumph, but what happens when their corporate customers follow suit? Will more AI agents replace people’s jobs, purchasing power and livelihoods? And when replicated on a global scale, how will households,…
Mr. Altman, AI isn’t just for young workers: Wisdom and experience are the ultimate AI…
Sam Altman's concerns about older workers and AI miss a key point. This article presents a new, inspiring angle for freelancers and contractors to use their decades of experience as a unique advantage in the AI era.
You've heard it all.…
Autumn Budget worries: If the self-employed aren’t “working people” what are they?
Self-employed workers excluded from working people definition face financial strain, pension problems and jitters about upcoming Autumn Budget
If you work for a living, you're a working person, right?
It shouldn't matter whether you…
Honk if you’re on a Teams call: Will Mercedes and Microsoft’s ‘driven’…
Just when you thought you could avoid another Teams meeting because you "will be stuck in traffic", Microsoft and Mercedes-Benz have announced they've joined forces so drivers can join Microsoft Teams meetings directly from their vehicle's…
Microsoft laid off 9,000 workers to fund AI. Now that talent could use AI to outplay Microsoft
When one Microsoft executive told laid-off workers to use ChatGPT for "emotional support," they accidentally handed those ex-employees the perfect weapon: revenge. With tech layoffs mounting up, we could be entering an era of "Revenge of…
AI is driving corporate downsizing: is this a path to efficiency or concentration of power?
A new era of corporate "right-sizing" is dawning, driven by the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This shift, aimed at drastically reducing payrolls and headcounts, is raising profound questions about the future of work…