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Hey Sean. This is pretty interesting. My only concern would be that longer articles could be more difficult to "digest" for the reader and therefore less engaging. I would expect a viral professional article to need to be long and a viral casual article to need to be shorter. Is that something you have ever researched ?
Hey Pablo, congrats for the article, really well written and extremely interesting. I was wondering if you had any interesting input regarding what is better for a blog between writing a short article every day or a longer in-depth article once a week. Thanks, Michele
ACA is 0.10 an hour. If the worker works long enough s/he apply for Medicare. If you want you can offer additional benefits. This is obviously not true for full time employees.
Not to forget about companies offering warehouse movers for businesses as 1099. That's pretty much criminal.
On health insurance, to be precise the cost is $0.10/hour if a worker reaches a precise threshold in weekly hours, so far below 20%.
I am happy to see Eden following the path of BlueCrew and switching to a W2 model. This is the future of the on-demand economy. Customers should be aware the hiring a misclassified 1099 worker is illegal and risky
If you specify what kind of metrics you are looking for, happy to provide them. Ping me at michele@bluecrewjobs.com In general, 1099 are not covered by worker's comp and end up paying 7% more taxes. At a traditional staffing agency, a worker is asked to show-up in the office on Monday and declare her/his availability for the week. He is then called an pushed to a shift. Often they are never called. Opposite to them, we leave complete freedom to workers and allow them to set their own schedule
No offense at all. I am obviously biased. If this was true though, our customers would have not left traditional agencies for us. They all told us they did it for the same reasons: faster and easier to use. The way we manage our workforce is also fundamentally different and better for the workers ;)
We all agree that staffing agencies classify workers as employees. And that's the right thing to do. The focus is on the on-demand economy. Very few on-demand platform decided to go for the w2 route instead of the 1099 model. I might be wrong, but I can think of 3 in total
WoNoLo is a great company, but it's a 1099 model. It is difficult to justify how a low complexity worker can be a contractor. To be a contractor you need to have done a personal investment, cannot be trained and cannot be working on a shift. This exposes both the customer and the employee to a high level of risks. The employee does not have the needed insurance coverage. The customer is at risk of worker's misclassification, fines and costly claims. Compared to a traditional staffing agency, we have lower costs of operations. We showed our product to a quite a few people that worked ad ManPower and told us that we are faster, provide a better interface/experience. I hope they are right :)
Hello guys, this is Michele, one of the co-founders of BlueCrew :) Feel free to ask any question!