The term “contingent worker” is a technical way to refer to freelance workers and independent contractors. In practice, it’s most often used when referring to highly-skilled independent workers who are experts in their field, such as consultants. However, your gig platform’s terms of service...
For decades, the life cycle of buildings was a simple formula: planning, design, construction, demolition, and, of course, the great villain in this history: the landfill. Over time, architectural practice began embracing concepts likereuse,disassembly, and circular demolition, but often as seconda...
"My road map is clear and simple: it will be recovery - morning, noon and night." The coronavirus crisis has unravelled the hard-fought gains of a liberal economic reform agenda that provoked waves of protests during Macron's first three years in office. Before the pandemic hit, French ...
Ontario’s Tri-Cities, a collection of college towns (Kitchener, Cambridge, Waterloo) about 60 miles outside Toronto, with a regional population of about 500,000. There, IKEA located in a Costco-anchored strip mall in the center of the region — well away from the area’s universities....
As the second-largest economy globally, China has played a vital role in promoting sustainable development and shared prosperity among Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies and beyond, said Kasemsit Pathomsak, vice chairman of the Thai Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Trade of Tha...
(research diary). Dave,2the founder and CEO of Heavy Sound, framed this in both personal and organisational terms, illustrating how the project developed from an individual with an idea to a systemic intervention:“this structure has definitely helped me to grow, and it has helped Heavy Sound...
1 In this report we refer to full employment as 5 percent unemployment, roughly what the US economy experienced before this recession. We do not take a view on what the natural rate of unemployment will be in the future. 2 This calcu...
as Tesla’s Elon Musksaidhe has a “super bad feeling” about the U.S. economy, and JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon recentlywarnedabout the possibility of an incoming economic hurricane. Trends forecaster Gerald Celente recentlyexplainedthat if war continues in Europe, the odds of a recession increase...
Probably no other model has so persuasively explained the social and cultural meaning of pre- and early-industrial crowd activities as Edward P. Thompson's classic notion of moral economy, which he developed through an analysis of the rebellious behavior of the working poor in eighteenth-century ...
In addition to penalties on the the underpayment of income tax, you would typically be subjected to penalties on the underpayment of self-employment tax. These same accuracy-related penalty can also apply to unreported cash payments made to you if the IRS uncovers evidence of their existence....