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Make Work Better: Mental Health Awareness Month

The month of May brings a LOT of things to think about across a high/low spectrum: the first whisper of Summer weather, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, a new meme opportunity, and Mental Health Awareness month. While we’re celebrating all that May has in store, mental health is a front-and-center topic around the ol’ Slack …

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Leadership Guidance

Your Next Project Is Only as Successful as Your Next Freelance Team

Despite a weird and challenging last year, many businesses are recognizing a shift in growth opportunities thanks to the changing world of work. Remote work has become the norm, as have distributed working teams. With work/life boundaries being blurred by Zoom, workers are compelled (and in the best cases, empowered) to bring their full potential …

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Leadership Guidance

Hindsight is 20/20

Welp, we’ve made it to the one-year mark. 2020 will go down in the history books – a raging global pandemic, a massive economic recession, a worldwide reckoning of systemic racism and the urgency of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, and a relentlessly exhausting U.S. election cycle. Through it all, how we work has come into sharp …

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Talent Advice

Freelance FTW

Last year, we saw a massive shift to freelance work – amid pandemic-induced layoffs and a whole cadre of people who decided that life was just too short to spend it in a mediocre job, freelancing has become irresistible to talent looking for more freedom, just as much as it has to clients looking for …

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Leadership Guidance

Summer Reading Round-Up

About 3 years ago at the start of 2020, our team was planning an aggressive educational campaign around remote work best practices. We had learned a *lot* about how to do it right through our experience building Sandy remotely, and we saw a growing trend of top-tier talent going freelance and leaving cities for greener/cheaper/more …

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Leadership Guidance

The new promotion: why highly skilled talent is going freelance

Everything you’ve read in the news about how freelancers are taking over the work world is true. The flexibility to work on projects they’re passionate about (when and where they want to) is drawing senior-level talent away from the rigid lifestyle of 9-5 jobs. Skill at scale The highlights of the recent Freelancing in America …

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Leadership Guidance

Remote Control: How to set yourself up for success managing an offsite team

Show of hands: who loves working remote? Now, another show of hands: who loves working with remote team members? We all love the flexibility of being able to work wherever we want – whether that’s to travel, spend more time with our families, or skip an insane commute – but when it comes to working …

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Leadership Guidance

Freelance doesn’t have to be a freefall.

I spent more than a decade in the #agencylife, and… I loved it. I loved the thrill of a pitch, the insane camaraderie that’s fueled by shared deadlines and desk wine, and the feeling of building something larger than I could ever do on my own. I worked in big agencies and small boutiques, and …

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