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A North-West based marketing freelancer is changing the way small and medium-sized businesses approach their marketing – offering strategic, results-driven support that can be rare to come by.Olanta Harding, founder of O.H Marketing Management, helps businesses grow with a marketing approach that’s both effective and practical. Her services are built for those who know they need more than just a LinkedIn, but don’t know what they do need – nor can they justify the high retainers of traditional agencies. Since launching in early 2024, Olanta has worked with businesses across the North-West, from property and hospitality to professional services, helping them…
Your pesky remote freelancers demanding more money as inflation soars? You could try replacing them with AI agents instead — but it probably won’t work out well. New research highlighted by Wired shows how these AI models designed to automate tasks — if not entire jobs — turn out to be incredibly unproductive compared to the humans they’re replacing. Conducted by researchers at the nonprofit Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and the massive data annotation firm Scale AI, whose army of freelancers performs much of the grunt work underpinning the AI industry, the tests involved giving six leading AI agents…
Even the best artificial intelligence agents are fairly hopeless at online freelance work, according to an experiment that challenges the idea of AI replacing office workers en masse.The Remote Labor Index, a new benchmark developed by researchers at data annotation company Scale AI and the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), a nonprofit, measures the ability of frontier AI models to automate economically valuable work.The researchers gave several leading AI agents a range of simulated freelance work and found that even the best could perform less than 3 percent of the work, earning $1,810 out of a possible $143,991. The researchers…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The government is set to roll out ‘Work Near Home’ (WNH) centres across the state to help IT professionals, startups and freelancers log in to modern facilities closer to their homes. The first such centre is nearing completion Kottarakkara and will launch operations soon. The initiative aims to let techies and professionals in knowledge-based sectors work from modern, well-equipped centres in small towns and rural areas. The Kottarakkara centre, established in a BSNL-owned building near the Ganapathy temple, is being built for around Rs 5 crore. The government leased the two-storey building, which now features state-of-the-art amenities, including conference…
The federal government has finalized new procurement rules for freelance interpreters, which a professional association says will worsen an interpreter shortage on Parliament Hill.The new rules announced by Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) on Oct. 24 will come into effect beginning next year.The Canadian region of the International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC-Canada) has derided the rules, saying they will worsen working conditions and wages. The new finalized rules contain a “lowest-bid system” in which the contractor offering to do the job for cheapest will win the contract.Nicole Gagnon, a spokesperson for AIIC-Canada, said that despite assurances from the…
Breadcrumb Trail LinksNewsLocal News‘Moving forward, I see nothing but great things for this town.’Published Oct 29, 2025 • Last updated 9 minutes ago • 2 minute readAttending the first meeting of the new Mayerthorpe council were (l-r) councillors Rick Armstrong, Bridgette Campbell, Mayor A.J. Malcolm, Becky Wells and Annette Pedersen. Photo by BRAD QUARINArticle contentThere were mostly new faces when Mayerthorpe town council gathered for its first meeting since the Oct. 20 municipal election. Advertisement 2This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Article contentMayor A.J. Malcolm presided over the Oct. 27 organizational meeting, where councillors chose a deputy mayor…
This publication has been put together to reflect on Sounding Board, which took place on Tuesday 14th October 2025. Sounding Board was designed to bring together arts workers to listen to each other, learn from each other and strengthen the art being made in our region. It aimed to feel positive, collaborative and informal – with participants invited to speak ‘in draft form’ as we work things out together and tackle tough questions at a tough time. Freelance contributors were paid for their time. Cultural Collisions invited three critical friends to attend the event and share their thoughts and feelings about the day, as well…
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With the upcoming “dreadline” for Self-Assessment Tax Returns just two days away, new data has revealed that over 28,000 are at risk of being hit with £100 fines for late filings.While the cut-off date for online filings isn’t until January 2026, the October 31st deadline often involves a frenzy of late paper filers — though this is something Making Tax Digital (MTD) aims to eliminate once it becomes mandatory from April 2026.Still, despite the UK government’s shift toward digital systems, many freelancers and small business owners are still expected to miss the deadline this year, according to research by NerdWallet…
As an employer, if you’re paying the industry standard, what’s going to make a freelancer choose to work for you rather than a similar company? The difference is a job that intrigues, motivates and provides an opportunity for learning and development, she says. And just like employees, freelancers these days are interested in sustainability and inclusivity. “There’s never been a more important time for a company to ask itself: Who am I? How do I create work that’s great? And how do I create a sense of belonging?”Gratton, who teaches a popular MBA elective to second-year students on the future…
