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Small business owners feel "mugged" again by Reeves
Small business owners are expressing their discontent over their exclusion from Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves’ December glitzy drinks p...
Opinion
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Freelancer Finance
When freelance job platforms start offering credit, is it time to celebrate or address the payment crisis first?
OPINION A Youlend-Upwork partnership highlights growing freelancer reliance on credit to bridge cash flow gaps and take on bigger projects. Despite...
News
The Freelance Champion we need: Why Britain's £366bn workforce deserves more
Britain's 4.38m freelancers need an independent cross-sector Freelance Champion and Commissioner who has legislative voting rights When the House o...
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Reeves’ Budget raids savings, family legacies, pensions and self-employed “wealth”. But on the bright side, our Bingo winnings won’t be taxed anymore...
“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 t...
Business & Finance
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 — e...
IR35
When did working become a crime in the UK?
The UK workforce is on the precipice, and Westminster isn’t acting fast enough OPINION Britain's workforce is suffering. Unemployment is rising. Li...
News
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 unemploy...
News
Salesforce’s aim to become agentic enterprise could spur copycat mass redundancies across customer base
Big tech CEOs are celebrating AI triumph, but what happens when their corporate customers follow suit? Will more AI agents replace people’s jobs, p...
Opinion
Mr. Altman, AI isn't just for young workers: Wisdom and experience are the ultimate AI superpowers
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 ...
News
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 y...
Tech
Honk if you're on a Teams call: Will Mercedes and Microsoft's 'driven' ambition cause more burnout?
Just when you thought you could avoid another Teams meeting because you "will be stuck in traffic", Microsoft and Mercedes-Benz have announced they...
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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 ...