The catastrophe that was the European Super League in April had me wishing I was in the internal stakeholder meeting where some bright spark presented their algorithm for the true value of a football club. Something along the lines TTS (Total Ticket Sales) x SMF (Social Media Following) x MPEM…

One clear winner from a year with so many lows (2020) was the distributed workforce. By so many accounts it was truly a Goldilocks year for the concept. Our hand may have been forced but we may be finally able to jettison the stigma of remote working being incompatible with…

What hubris, what arrogance, on all our parts, to think that IR35 tax reform was the worst thing to happen to us in 2020. …

In its sixth year, the YunoJuno Freelancer Awards Ceremony (or the Sweet FA’s as we affectionately call it) has been a highlight of our calendar year. We started the event because we saw a vacuum in how freelancers were recognised or celebrated — especially when they play such a pivotal…

If you make location an issue, it’s bound to be one. “Did you get caught in the storm? “ “No...” There’s a temptation to think that being or hiring ‘remote’ is a leap into the unknown and the unaccountable. Work in tech long enough and you will have your own…

There comes a point in most people’s lives when your parents, guardians or educators stop being responsible for how you think. The job then falls on yourself to make sense of what you see in the world. And if something doesn’t add up, it’s up to you to figure it…

Yesterday my company (YunoJuno) just sent out an email (written by me) about a scenario we are seeing take shape in the UK freelance industry and very particularly an option becoming more attractive to organisations on YJ and elsewhere when hiring freelancers. The email was met with some pretty strong…

If you combined the swagger of Mr White, Blonde, Pink, Blue, Brown and Orange in the opening credits of Reservoir Dogs and Rosie Perez’s epic opening dance moves in Do The Right Thing, that’s about the level of confidence I wanted to wander through life. But unfortunately, that hasn’t been…

YunoJuno’s company culture is incredibly important to me, as it is with my co-founders. When we started YunoJuno in 2012, we selfishly wanted to build a company that we ourselves wanted to work for. We had each been in companies that not only made the day-to-day experience enjoyable, but also…