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Katherine Steiner-Dicks

Katherine Steiner-Dicks is an Editorial Consultant and Founder of BuzzVestor Media, a B2B investment news-analysis and media services company that serves startups, publishers, investors, targeted clients and high-net-worth families on how to to create and sustain amazing content, businesses, wealth and lifestyles.

Are freelancers accidentally fuelling rate collusion?

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Sep 10, 2025

When freelancers don't demand their worth, they're not just undervaluing their own work—they could be unintentionally helping companies keep rates low. This creates a cycle where businesses believe they don't need to compete on pay, making…

Think tank calls for state-sponsored sick pay insurance for self-employed. What will it cover and…

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Sep 10, 2025

A recent report from the Fabian Society exposes the precarious financial position many freelancers and the UK economy face and suggests an opt-out sick pay insurance system to combat it. But what and how much will it actually cover? And…

Did Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong’s AI mandate open Pandora’s box?

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Sep 8, 2025

When Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong went “rogue” and gave engineers at the crypto trading platform an ultimatum to use AI to write code or lose their jobs, he may have set a precedent for other CEOs. But in the process, he may have just let…

How the next 90 minutes could change your business

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Sep 3, 2025

Here's what most freelancers get backwards: they spend all day building other people's dreams while their own business barely gets scraps of leftover time. But what if you flipped that around? Just 90 minutes a day focused on YOUR…

Salesforce’s aim to become agentic enterprise could spur copycat mass redundancies across customer…

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Sep 1, 2025

Big tech CEOs are celebrating AI triumph, but what happens when their corporate customers follow suit? Will more AI agents replace people’s jobs, purchasing power and livelihoods? And when replicated on a global scale, how will households,…

PAYE Peril: New law threatens double tax for agencies and hirers. Contractors still not protected

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Aug 27, 2025

A warning has been issued to the UK's recruitment sector: a significant change in tax legislation, coming into force in April 2026, could see agencies and hirers forced to pay their workers' PAYE twice over Professional Passport, an…

Want to future proof a career in offshore wind? Prep for more government and union involvement and…

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Aug 26, 2025

SPECIAL REPORT The UK government has established a Fair Work Charter for the offshore wind industry to help unite employment and skill objectives between unions and businesses. We explore what this could mean for fixed-term contractors…

Exclusive: “£40K tax on being employed” revealed in new report

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Aug 25, 2025

NerdWallet reveals freelancers' earning potential in the UK. Plus, research has revealed why the move to freelance is not as risky as it used to be, and can be a smart move for those driven to fulfil their earning potential In an…

Taxpayers to be charged less for late tax payments

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Aug 21, 2025

HMRC reduces interest after Bank of England cut, but taxpayers still hit by 8% rate The interest charged by HMRC on late tax payments has dropped by 0.25% in line with changes to the Bank of England (BOE) base rate, HMRC…

AI talent rush: Anthropic’s hiring spree sparks lucrative opportunities for European freelancers

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Aug 18, 2025

With US AI giants launching an aggressive hiring spree across the UK and Europe, the race for top freelance talent is heating up. But what does this mean for your day rate and future opportunities? US-based AI company Anthropic has…

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