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Two Sorts Of Workwashing

Telling stories that might be or could be true to prop up work inequities.

Stowe Boyd
Aug 16, 2021
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David Gelles interviews Hayden Brown in How Freelancing Is Changing Work, who says some sensible things about the business scene and what the post-pandemic world of work might be, but as the CEO of Upwork, the freelancer platform, I think she is workwashing the rise of the gig economy:

Gelles: There’s a chicken-and-egg conundrum here. A…

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