In the best U.S. city for remote work, the median household income is $71,000; rent is about $1,400 a month; homes are valued at about $412,000; and 58% of residents are college grads. Welcome to Portland, Maine. Population: 68,424. The waterfront town is the highest-ranked U.S. city for remote workers according to a new analysis … Read more
Americans are diving into freelancing — 38% performed freelance work in 2023, according to Upwork’s December 2023 Freelance Forward survey. While some are freelancing full-time, many people are also doing so part-time as a side hustle. If you yourself are considering a side gig, there are many ways to dive in. You can write … Read more
Jobseekers interested in breaking into the film and television industry may have a harder time this year and even in the coming years. That’s according to Tommy O’Donnell, president of the Theatrical Teamsters Local 817, a union of casting and location executives as well as TV and film drivers throughout the Northeast, and other panelists … Read more
Ever wanted to retract an email right after you’ve sent it? A majority of workers know the feeling, and the youngest professionals are the most likely to feel email regret. Some 88% of people say they’ve regretted the contents of a work email right after hitting send, and 28% even believe an email they’ve sent … Read more
More Americans may be struggling to make ends meet. A majority, 65%, say they live paycheck to paycheck, according to CNBC and SurveyMonkey’s recent Your Money International Financial Security Survey, which polled 498 U.S. adults. That’s a slight increase from last year’s results, which found that 58% of Americans considered themselves to be living paycheck … Read more
On Jan. 9, TikToker Brittany Pietsch posted a video of her layoff from tech company Cloudflare. The video went viral, with various outlets weighing in both on how the company handled the layoff and Pietsch’s choice to post it at all. To-date, the video’s been played 1.1 million times, and Pietsch’s repost of the video … Read more
After years of building out her successful Etsy store, Rachel Jimenez is now focusing her efforts on other projects. The store features printables like Elf on a Shelf games for Christmas and has made six figures in passive income in past years. She founded it in 2019. Etsy brought in $77,000 in passive income in … Read more
Finland is the happiest country in the world for the seventh year running, according to the latest World Happiness Report. Two major factors help Finns find happiness at work: a high level of trust in institutions and colleagues, as well as a strong focus on work-life balance, says Miika Makitalo, CEO of HappyOrNot. The Finland-based … Read more
Women make up just 14% of the construction workforce in the U.S. and 1% of chief executives in the field — and Misha Homara is one of them. The 30-year-old is the CEO of Tricore Panels in the Bay Area, a family business her dad started in 2012 that creates metal, wood and concrete paneling … Read more
On March 13, the House of Representatives passed the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, calling for Chinese tech company ByteDance to divest from TikTok. If it does not, the app would be effectively banned in the U.S. The bill has since headed to the Senate. There are tens of thousands of influencers … Read more
