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An online marketplace that matches IT and other freelancers with corporate clients [95] Gigster: United States: An online platform to complete software projects [96] [97] Liveops: United States: An online platform offering call center services [98] [99] [100] Kaggle: United States: An online platform for data science competitions [94] [89 ...
Many foreign men and women take part in sex tourism, which is thriving at resorts along Kenya's coast. Thousands of girls and boys are involved in casual child prostitution [5] due to poverty in the region. Sex workers report abuse, extortion and violence from the police. [3] Japanese prostitutes (the Karayuki-san) serviced British colonialists ...
According to the 2012 Freelance Industry Report compiled primarily about North America freelancing, nearly half of freelancers do writing work, with 18% of freelancers listing writing as a primary skill, 10% editing/copy-editing, and 10% as copy-writing. 20% of freelancers listed their primary skills as design.
Founded in 2007 by Xenios Thrasyvoulou and Simos Kitiris, [2] the company has offices in London and Athens. [3] Businesses using the website are often start-ups or SMEs looking to grow flexibly by hiring freelancers to handle projects rather than hiring in-house or via agencies.
Back when we had decent jobs and strong unions, it (kind of) made sense to provide things like health care and retirement savings through employer benefits. But now, for freelancers and temps and short-term contractors—i.e., us—those benefits might as well be Monopoly money.
Skilled work varies in type (service versus labor), education requirements (apprenticeship versus graduate college) and availability (freelance versus on-call). Each differences are often reflected in titling, opportunity, responsibility and (most significantly) salary.
Freeters do not start a career after high school or university, but instead earn money from low-paid jobs. The word freeter or freeta is thought to be a portmanteau of the English word free (or perhaps freelance) and the German word Arbeiter ("labourer"). Arubaito is a Japanese loanword from Arbeiter, and perhaps from Arbeit ("work").
When more jobs are available for fewer workers (lower unemployment), that may allow workers to find the jobs that better fit their tastes, talents and needs. As in the Marxian theory of unemployment, special interests may also benefit. Some employers may expect that employees with no fear of losing their jobs will not work as hard or will ...