Shifting Obligations for Employers with Advancement of AI-driven Automation and Rise of Independent Workers

Shifting Obligations for Employers with Advancement of AI-driven Automation and Rise of Independent Workers

McDougall-NLR Law Firm SEO Webinar, March 14, 2017, 3pm EDT As I continue to follow developments regarding the future of work, I recently attended an event co-sponsored by Cornell/ILR’s Institute for Workplace Studies in NYC and the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) addressing MGI’s report last Fall entitled Independent Work: Choice, Necessity and the Gig Economy . The report examines the increasing numbers of self-employed, freelance and temporary workers in the U.S. and Europe which are currently estimated to comprise 30 percent of the working-age population and rising. The report notes that many workers have chosen this autonomous path as […]

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