It’s probably safe to say the main force right now driving the shift away from full-time, permanent employment towards virtual work is the employers themselves. Here are some of the reasons I see why we can expect companies to rely more on virtual workers in the future. It’ll cost them less. Like contract workers today, [...]
Tagged Generation Y, Virtual workersLast September the Globe and Mail published an article about an interesting company, We Wash Cars, that provides car-detailing services in Vancouver and Toronto. The company is unusual in the way it operates: Instead of running a garage where people bring their cars, it maintains a roaming fleet of vans that travel to customers. All [...]
Tagged Fuentek, Virtual company, We Wash CarsI don’t plan on writing much about personal finance, even though it’s one of my favourite topics. That’s because most of what I really want to learn about are things a person considers after the lessons of personal finance have already been absorbed: Breaking ties to traditional employment, launching a small business, becoming financially independent. [...]
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