{"id":5433,"date":"2020-03-05T08:59:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T13:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/?p=5433"},"modified":"2025-04-09T14:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T18:11:11","slug":"leveraging-the-gig-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/2020\/03\/05\/leveraging-the-gig-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Leveraging the gig economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Leveraging the gig economy<\/h2>\n<p><span>The internet and social media have changed the workplace and the nature of work. Employers and employees find each other online, and the workforce is more mobile, diverse, and dispersed. Companies make greater use of temporary workers, consultants, and outsourcing. This presentation will discuss what these changes mean for your career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Presented by<strong> Lisa Renee Pomerantz (LAW&#8217;79)<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lisapom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Attorney at Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/career\/career-webinars\/\">Upcoming Webinars<\/a> <a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/career\/career-webinars\/\">On-Demand Webinars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nature of work is changing. Learn what a shift towards a gig economy might mean for your career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16959,"featured_media":5435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,30,390],"tags":[],"featured_img":"\/alumni\/files\/2020\/03\/Gig-Economy-800x400.png","agg_excerpt":"The nature of work is changing. Learn what a shift towards a gig economy might mean for your career.","agg_title":"Leveraging the gig economy","media_icon":"webinar-icon","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5433"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25487,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433\/revisions\/25487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}