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Gig Talents

Gig
economy is a temporary work system based on short-term relationship between
talents and organisation. Talents perform gigs, in which they are employed for
a specific task or time and they get paid for gigs.

Gig
talents are those who simply don’t want or need full-time employment or those who
are searching for full-time employment but need to earn while they job-hunt.

Interestingly, it’s the youngest and the oldest talents —
boomers and Gen Z — are positive towards gig as they feel it gives them flexibility with reasonable stability. The
middle two groups — Gen Y and Gen X — are most lukewarm.

Globally
it is projected that gig talents will comprise half the workforce by2020, and
as much as 80% by 2030.

In USA,
a country that is well on its way to establishing a strong
gig economy…

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Rust Belt Girl

Thanks to a couple of my favorite bloggers*, I’ve been thinking about the “side hustle” lately. Seems the popular term for side job has shifted from “gig” to “hustle,” and with it, comes a more pejorative connotation.

Let’s start here: once upon a time, when graduating with my MFA in Creative Writing, I learned of an opportunity to do part-time contract work in internal communications—for the credit card company headquartered nearby. Not for a hip advertising firm. Not even for a nonprofit with a compelling cause. Nope, this job would require clocking in and out for the Fortune 500 company sometimes referred to around town as “the devil.”

Internal communications for the devil meant digesting leadership meeting notes on risk management and summarizing and synthesizing said notes into digestible PowerPoint presentations. (Oh, the myriad PowerPoint presentations!) And then came the fun of organizing the presentation…

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Gig Talents

All One Big Happy Hustle