If there’s a silver lining to all this, COVID-19 has created significant hiring opportunities in myriad fields. The candidate pool is now brimming with talent who have been furloughed or laid off, and a great many companies have had to significantly increase hiring to meet the demand created by the shift in the public’s buying […]
Pre-employment checks are a common staple in the employment sector and best practices by industry are firmly established at this point. Background screening for the Sharing Economy, on the other hand, is still a novel concept. The meteoric rise of this new sector is now raising the question: do standard background screening practices apply to […]
Without realizing it, many Sharing Economy companies are making binding legal claims about the safety of their marketplaces – claims which could come back to haunt them should any of their contractors ever commit crimes while performing a service. So believes Robert Yonowitz, Partner at law firm Fisher & Phillips, LLP. In fact, at the […]
Can the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) apply to the Sharing Economy? And are all of the FCRA’s requirements really pertinent to our business? These are some of the most common questions HireRight receives from companies participating in the Sharing Economy who offer digital marketplaces. While there is not a definitive answer to these questions, […]
The sudden and swift growth of the Sharing Economy, also referred to as the Peer-to-Peer Economy, has challenged the status quo. Innovation always does. While it certainly has stimulated lively debate among incumbent industries, the reality is that this phenomenon is far from a passing trend: its size was estimated at $110B in 2013 and it […]
