“Justin Gignac sees this as a shift from advertising the desired skill sets and responsibilities to focusing on personality and culture. ‘It’s important for companies and job seekers, both freelance and full-time, to get a real sense of each other before taking the plunge,’ he says.”
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The Top 50 Companies Working Not Working Creatives Want to Work Next 2018
8,934 WNW creatives took part in this year’s Top Companies survey, and named 2,832 companies. Here are the 50 that rose to the top. For the first time, we're ranking the results in order. Click here to see who made the cut.
Read More4 Ways Gen Z Will Change Company Culture
"There's a huge benefit to bringing in fresh blood, fresh perspective and fresh energy," says Justin Gignac, Working Not Working's co-founder and CEO. "Sometimes, a freelancer's enthusiasm and point of view can shake up a team that may have gotten bogged down."
Read MoreHow To Access Top 10% Talent As A CMO
“Corporations are realizing the huge impact that strong creative can have on the bottom line, and that those decisions should be made closer to the source," notes Justin Gignac, Co-Founder of Working Not Working.
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WNW Launches a Swag Shop
For perhaps our greatest act of generosity, we're selling out. That's right. The Working Not Working Shop is here. We're finally giving our members the chance to stylishly rep the WNW brand and pay us handsomely for the honor.
Read MoreWorking Not Working Partners with Skillshare
We've partnered up with Skillshare, the online learning community with over 5 million members and thousands of classes in the creative industry, to host a 3-week long workshop exclusively for Graphic Designers. The focus is on building an online presence and getting more work opportunities.
Read MoreJoin WNW & Designer Zipeng Zhu in Supporting This Year's AIDS/LifeCycle
WNW Co-founder Adam Tompkins had the idea to produce a WNW-sponsored kit for Thomas Q. Sims’ AIDS/LifeCycle ride with one of our members, & immediately thought of the inimitable Zipeng Zhu.
Read MoreVote for These Internet-Dominating, Webby-Nominated WNW Members
We're real proud of our Webby-nominated WNW members & have already cast our votes for them. See their nominated work here and easily cast your votes. We're also very honored to be nominated for a Webby again this year. It's up to you, our fervent community, to help us win.
Read MoreWorking Not Working Acquires London-Based "Talent Fixers" The Backscratchers
Working Not Working has acquired London-based "talent fixers" business The Backscratchers. “We're committed to growing outside the United States to give our community greater access to global talent and opportunities," WNW Co-founder Adam Tompkins says.
Read MoreSwag Alert: Working Not Working Hats
We partnered with Flexfit and WNW Members Marta Cerda, Jon Contino, Faust, and Alex Trochut to bring you 4 beautifully-designed caps.
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The Top Companies WNW Creatives Would Kill to Work for Full-Time 2017
We surveyed our members for the fourth year in a row, asking them which companies they’d kill to work for full-time.
Read MoreWNW + VICE Team Up For FoodFight!
Less than a month ago, Working Not Working launched the Work In Progress program and assembled a task force of 20 diverse creatives who work for companies including Google, Snapchat, XPRIZE and TED to create solutions to LA's biggest civic issues. For our first project, labeled FoodFight!, we partnered with VICE Media, local non-profits including Safe Place For Youth and L.A. Kitchen, and members of the Mayor's Operations Innovation team to develop actionable ideas to reduce food waste and improve access to healthy food at homeless shelters across the city. None of us expected that just a few weeks later, we'd have thousands of fellow Angelenos eager to support our ideas.
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WNW Returns to London this Week
Working Not Working is taking to the London streets this coming week. After a jaunt around Copenhagen and Amsterdam at the start of summer, we decided to hop back across the pond with a return to London. We hope to catch up with our London-based Members, or anyone willing to make the trip to one of our events.
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WNW 2.0 Is Here
Today is a big day. What started as a side project to wrangle a few hundred freelancers in New York, has become a resource for more than 10,000 creatives and some of the most innovative companies in the world.
Years of feature requests, conversations with creative leaders and hirers, as well as feedback from our members have culminated in the single biggest update in Working Not Working's five year history. While our mission remains the same, the site will look a lot different when you next sign in.
The Top Companies WNW Creatives Would Kill to Work for Full-Time 2016
The freelancing movement continues to climb, now making up 35% of the U.S. workforce. That rising desire for freedom and variety only offers a more powerful barometer to see which companies are adapting to the modern climate and offering enough goods to attract the best creatives.
Read MoreGoing Freelance: Building and Branding Your Own Success
Running Working Not Working over the years has given us an inside look into the best practices of going freelance. We're continually inspired by our members and we've learned a lot from their successes - and their struggles. Because it can be scary to take the freelance plunge, we created a Skillshare class that sets the foundation of working for yourself, Going Freelance: Building and Branding Your Own Success.
Read MorePhoto by WNW Member #8184 Rob Kalmbach
WNW Co-founders Named Two of the Most Creative People of 2015
We’re excited to see that Justin Gignac and Adam Tompkins, co-founders of Working Not Working, are included in the Creativity 50! This year's list is Creativity's 10th anniversary edition and highlights 50 of the most creative people in 2015. It includes some heavy hitters like J.J. Abrams, Banksy, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Amy Schumer, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jean Jullien and Watson...and we're thrilled to see Justin and Adam recognized alongside such incredible folks.
Read MoreWNW x Print All Over Me Launch First Member-Designed Collection
If you've ever tried printing on a shirt and were sorely disappointed by how it turned out, you're not alone. But then came Print All Over Me, a creative service that allows people to turn their designs into real world objects. PAOM brings out the wannabe fashion designer in all of us. And with their super high-quality neoprene fabrics, modern silhouettes, and frequent artist collaborations, PAOM makes it really hard to keep your wallet closed.
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The Future of Work: WNW Stars in Microsoft Campaign
Working Not Working made its small screen debut in recent weeks in a commercial for Microsoft Office. As part of their #TheNewOffice campaign, Microsoft is showcasing organizations that are enabling the future of work and collaboration. Courtesy of their agency (and WNW members) The Pub, Working Not Working was chosen.
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