The Telecommuting and Gig Workforce in Montana

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Butte,Montana is going Hollywood as more filmmakers work in the Mining City

“My friend Sam Debree came up last night and he goes, ‘we need to make it so that we can impale somebody with a plow,’” said Butte artist Rob McClain.

Want a More Equitable Future? Empower Citizen Developers

By the end of this decade, we will have failed if the tech industry is the only beneficiary of tech intensity. Its purpose is the democratic ideal of opportunity for everyone.

Want to Know the Heart of a City? Visit the Local Bookstore – Cassiopeia Books in Great Falls, Montana

One of the very best ways to become acquainted with a new city is via its local bookstore. 

Mark Cuban on how the country will change post-pandemic: ‘America 2.0’ will look ‘different’

Up to 23 million Americans are planning to relocate, according to Upwork’s Remote Workers on the Move report released Thursday. 

7 Ways to Make Remote Work Successful Beyond COVID-19

Work from home was at first a temporary pandemic solution, but as public and private organizations alike make remote work permanent, they’ll need to make adjustments to more than just where staff are located.

Building resilient rural places: Strategies from local leaders to strengthen rural assets, diversity, and dynamism

Using in-depth, on-the-ground research in three rural communities across the U.S., the following briefs highlight these place-based strategies as well as the policy and capacity-building supports needed to sustain and scale them in the years to come.

U.S. tech firms can compensate gig-workers with equity under SEC proposal

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said internet-based companies may have the same incentives to offer equity compensation to gig-workers as they do to employees. Until now, though, SEC rules have not allowed companies to pay gig workers in equity.

CAN DO Podcast: The Future of Work

A great conversation on the future of work with Stacy Malone, UM Alumna and Director of Change Management at the GAP Inc, and Dr. Beth Humberd, Professor, researcher and Professor at UMass, with a focus on Worker Identity and organizational dynamics.  Well worth a listen.

More companies are hiring a ‘director of remote work’

As many embrace working from home, companies like Facebook are looking to hire a remote work leader.

How to create a workforce that thrives at home

This article aims to help organizations invest wisely in virtual competence by first explaining how it requires developing at least three capabilities in tandem: virtual self-efficacy, virtual social skill, and virtual media skill.