What Does Your Nirvana Look Like?

Work-life balance is a term that gets thrown around quite a bit, but while we love to talk about it, actually achieving it is another thing entirely. In fact, its attainment can seem akin to achieving modern day nirvana. This…

The On-Demand Economy: Real-Time Response to the Minimum Wage Increase

This is no April Fools' joke. The start of April marks an important shift in the history of United States labor laws as minimum wage legislation in New York and California increased to $15 an hour - now the highest in the country…

Company Culture and the Most Meaningful Marketing Metric

I recently read a comment on one of our Facebook posts that reminds me why I came to work for Wonolo. Sure, marketing for a tech startup is fun and challenging. Everything is new and bursting with creative energy. You…

How Large Companies Can Work With Startups

I recently had the opportunity to present to a group of senior HR executives at a Fortune 500 company about the emergence of on-demand services and its impact on the future of work. Somehow, our discussion switched over to a…

The Rise of the Machines: Disrupting a Century-Old Business

"Machines will never replace humans," grumbled an executive sitting behind me during Neil Jacobstein’s presentation on “The Rise of the Machines” at the 25th SIA Executive Forum in late February 2016. Interestingly, he was not the only attendee who expressed…

Entrepreneurs Have a Lot to Learn from Gardeners

I heard a quote today about how difficult and tedious gardening is: “Gardening is 90% pulling weeds, 10% planting seeds.” It’s not just the glamour of designing a garden and then planting the flowers, but a great gardener knows what…

Ultimate Sharing – Share Your Workforce

Is there a win-win in the context of the new sharing economy for part-time workers? Over the past three years of building Wonolo, I have had the privilege of being in a unique position to meet and talk with two…

48 Hours in Paris: Why Legos, 3D Printing and On-Demand Staffing are More Alike Than You Think

It’s 5:05 p.m., and I’m somewhere over the Southern tip of Greenland on my way back home from Paris. I was actually quite lucky to have even made this morning’s flight in the first place. I overslept because for some…

Unum and Colonial Life Select Wonolo to Build On-Demand Workforce

Wonolo provides more efficient allocation of benefits counselors yielding higher customer engagement and reduced costs SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 08, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Wonolo, an on-demand staffing platform enabling businesses to fill their immediate labor needs, today announced it has…