The Division

A meditation on the harsh implications of the tech driven sharing and contractor economy.

Women Earn Less than Men in 302 of 311 Occupations

by Nicholas Buffie

In his 2014 State of the Union address, President Obama discussed the fact that women workers are paid far less than their male colleagues: “That is wrong. And in 2014, it’s an embarrassment. Women…

New Study on the Impact of the Technologies of Expertise on Labor Markets

McKinsey Study Finds that Online Talent Platforms Could Boost the Economy by $2.7 Trillion by 2025

The US Labor Force is Reconstituting Before Our Eyes

Most columnists keep an eye on the labor force…

Jockeying For Higher Position

The elephant seals barked and listed upon the wet dock. It was Sunday, so I had the time to sit and watch…

The new normal, polarized labor market

Forecasting the end of routine jobs as we know them

Putting Crowdsourcing to Work for the Enterprise (Part 1)

From static hierarchy to dynamic labor market

By David Sun and Alex Kass

Why has US participation jumped over the last five months?

The labor force participation rate — the percent of the population who either have or are actively seeking a job — has been a fairly gloomy statistic for most of the US recovery. It fell by 3.6 per cent between December 2007 and…

Uber’s Internal Labor Market Through a SaaS Lens

Uber released some data on its own labor market in 2015. I thought it would be interesting to see how many more metrics I could derive on top of what they’ve shared.