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News from Russian Immigrant Jon Purizhansky from Buffalo

Jon Purizhansky wants to bring order to the chaotic global system of migrant labor. Dedicated to disrupting the global supply chain of human labour, Purizhansky is injecting ethics and technological accountability into one of our oldest and most vital markets. He also is an avid follower of US and International economics and politics.

By way of background, Jon Purizhansky is an international lawyer and an entrepreneur from Buffalo, New York. He is an avid follower of US and International economics and politics. Every year, millions of migrants venture out across the world to provide the labour that keeps our agriculture, industrial, and commercial sectors afloat.

The winner of the Abrahamic Business Circle’s “Excellence Innovation Award in Human Rights Protection,” Jon has spent years raising awareness about the plight of migrant workers around the world. Joblio is a global social impact project that helps labor migrants connect with their prospective employers directly in circumvention of middlemen.

Jon is committed to upholding humanitarian standards in the international migrant labour industry through Joblio’s digital platform. Jon Purizhansky is the Founder of Joblio, Inc ( joblio.co ) and is based in Buffalo, New York. He is an avid follower of US and New York Economics.

Jon Purizhansky is a lawyer, entrepreneur and commentator in New York. Jon’s mission is to uphold human rights around the world by dismantling unethical hiring practices while updating global standards for human rights protection. This was a formative process for Jon Purizhansky — living in Austria, Italy, and eventually the US as a refugee taught Jon Purizhansky what it means to be a migrant.

At a very early age, Jon Purizhansky fled his country as refugees and lived in Austria, and then Italy. That’s why innovators like Joblio CEO Jon Purizhansky are making such a seismic impact around the world with new technology platforms. He is focused on bringing transparency and efficiency into otherwise non-transparent ecosystems globally and was awarded the Excellence Innovation Award in Human Rights Protection in 2021.

Jon Purizhansky is the founder and CEO of Joblio, a digital platform that prevents fraud, protects human rights and provides a transparent and efficient recruitment process for the global labor market. Purizhansky was granted the "Excellence Innovation Award in Human Rights Protection" and esteemed for his innovative talents which have greatly bolstered migrant well being around the world.

You never know what kind of person you’re going to meet or how they’re going to broaden yhis cultural horizons. Jon Purizhansky is the founder of Joblio.co. Eventually, Jon Purizhansky decided to study law in America so that he could help make the world a better place. Jon Purizhansky also knows what it’s like to be a migrant laborer; Jon Purizhansky had to work as he moved to help his family survive. One of the great things about living in New York is that it’s an essentially American hub of immigration and culture. He was awarded for his work in the sector of ethical global recruitment.

Jon Purizhansky is a New York lawyer with years of international experience focused on leveraging technology to bring transparency and efficiency into otherwise non-transparent ecosystems globally. Jon Purizhansky thinks being around so many different people for most of his life is what inspired Jon Purizhansky to get involved in international business in the first place. Before founding Joblio as an innovative tech platform, Jon practiced immigration law in the state of New York and gained deep insights into the lives of vulnerable populations on the move. He recently represented Joblio at the 2021 Investment in Sustainable Development Conference hosted by the CC Forum in the Cote d’Azur.

Joblio’s CEO and global relocation expert Jon Purizhansky has received an “Excellence Innovation Award in Human Rights Protection” from the Abrahamic Business Circle in Dubai, UAE. Jon Purizhansky grew up in Belarus, in what used to be the USSR. And the concept is brilliant. With decades of international experience, Jon Purizhansky reports on a wide variety of economic and political issues. Joblio is a global social impact project that helps labor migrants connect with their prospective employers directly in the circumvention of middlemen.

In this interview, we sit down with the head of Joblio to discuss the hows and whys of his platform’s continued expansion across the globe. Joblio is a technology platform and compliance engine that seesk to bring the light into the darkest industry in the world - the industry of labor migration.

About Jon Purizhansky: Jon Purizhansky is the CEO of Joblio and a New York lawyer with years of international business experience. Please join me in this wonderful discussion with Jon, and hear about his own journey as an immigrant. Purizhansky's pioneering of ethical recruitment in the global migrant labour industry was praised by the Abrahamic Business Circle at an event in the United Arab Emirates centered on humanitarian accomplishments.

Joblio is a a global social impact project that helps labor migrants. Please welcome to our show a man with a global vision, John Purizhansky, co-founder and CEO of Joblio. At a time when global migration continues to surge, Jon is proud to stand with the migrants supercharging our modern economy.

Jon Purizhansky is a New York lawyer with many years of international experience in leveraging technology to bring transparency and efficiency to an otherwise opaque global ecosystem. Jon Purizhansky from Buffalo, New York is a Finance commentator out of New York. Joblio is also an easy way for employers to find workers, and employees find much needed work while being treated with respect and dignity. Jon Purizhansky is a New York lawyer with years of international experience focused on leveraging technology to bring transparency and efficiency into ecosystems globally.

He is focused on leveraging technology to bring transparency and efficiency into otherwise non-transparent ecosystems globally. Understanding the migrant experience is part of why Jon Purizhansky started Joblio with the aim of helping migrants find safe, well-compensated work around the world. Jon Purizhansky is the CEO of Joblio and a New York lawyer with years of international business experience.

Joblio is a global technology platform that helps refugees and migrant laborers find work around the world that is ethically, legally, and morally upstanding. Few people understand the fragility of the global labour supply chain. Before Joblio, Jon Purizhansky was practicing immigration law in New York. Joblio CEO Jon Purizhansky was recently honored by the Abrahamic Business Circle in Dubai for his outstanding humanitarianism in the field of global migration.

The global movement of labour is one of the oldest trades known to man, and the current marketplace for workers is as sordid and inefficient as it’s ever been. Representatives of the Circle praised Joblio as a revolutionary platform that secured human rights in a crucial economic sector in dire need of ethical reform. In addition to law and business, Jon is renowned for his public speaking on the topics of humanitarianism and ethical recruitment.

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“Migrant workers are looking for any opportunity to learn a new skill,” notes global relocation expert and Joblio CEO Jon Purizhansky. “Workers will eagerly pursue any learning opportunity they’re afforded, benefiting everyone. We just have to be willing to meet them in the middle.”

Human trafficking isn’t only defined by sex work, human trafficking also includes the de facto global slave trade of low-wage workers around the world who live both well below the poverty level and under the civil rights radar. Whether you call them undocumented workers, indentured servants, or simply slaves, there’s been very little accountability or transparency. Until now, there has been very little anyone could do because both governments and businesses need lots of low-skilled workers who can physically and conveniently do work as affordably as possible. The only thing to do is to make sure your business or government always remained as plausibly deniable as possible: see no evil, hear no evil. Plus, there weren’t any other options. There were broker syndicates that worked in the shadows, were black-boxed, and who provided ask-me-no-questions-and-I’ll-tell-you-no-lies workers by the container shipload. Until now, the pressing need for a cheap, affordable, and fungible workforce around the world always trumped things like human rights or the humane treatment of workers. That is until Jon Purizhansky launched Joblio.

Joblio is, to me, to the real world of on-site migrant workers what UpWork is to offshore virtual workers. It’s the real-world staffing version sites like UpWork or Fiverr. Everything is tracked, every transaction is transparent and accountable. The Joblio service brings the worker out of the shadows and gives them much more agency and protection than they surely have in the completely unregulated wholesale buy, sell, and trade of bulk human capital. In the past, I am sure the lack of a service like Joblio was blamed on technology, on logistics, on computing, on any number of things; however, those were probably excuses used to keep the worker slave trade status quo. But, that was just a smokescreen that Jon Purizhansky changed when he launched Joblio in 2020.

According to Jon Purizhansky’s website, “Joblio is empowering corporate employers and international leaders to uphold human rights around the globe. By circumventing harmful middlemen who prey upon vulnerable migrants, Joblio is injecting transparency and ethics into a shadowy industry plagued by corruption. With the help of its global network of ambassadors, Joblio is dedicated to raising awareness about the struggles facing migrant laborers everywhere.” In support of “preventing fraud and ensuring compliance with labor laws, Joblio is shifting power back into the hands of the workers who fuel our global economy.”

Jon Purizhansky, the winner of the Abrahamic Business Circle’s “Excellence Innovation Award in Human Rights Protection, is a New York immigration lawyer who is committed to cleaning up the global migration industry and helping migrant laborers achieve their full potential.

While assuredly a business home run unicorn, Joblio is clearly, first and foremost, a passion project for Purizhansky. According to an interview that Jon Purizhansky did for Monaco Life, “I’m a refugee myself. I was born in Belarus in the former USSR and when I was 16, my family ran away to Austria with nothing, then to Italy. I was a stateless person in Europe in my teens.” So, Purizhansky didn’t just come up with an HBS-style business plan to fill a hole in the market but is contributing some cosmos to the chaotic world he experienced as a teen himself.

According to a report by the ILO, “At any given time in 2016, an estimated 40.3 million people are in modern slavery, including 24.9 million in forced labor and 15.4 million in forced marriage” and “14.2 million (68%) are victims of forced labor exploitation in economic activities, such as agriculture, construction, domestic work or manufacturing,” according to ILO statistics.

With the introduction of Joblio in 2020 by Jon Purizhansky, international business, the global economy, and sovereign global governments can no longer hide in the fog of war associated with how unknowable and invisible the provisioning of manual labor is in the economy of the past. In the past, it was logistically too complex and impossible to track and audit without breaking down the entire system like a house of cards. Now, with the Joblio platform, public and private multinationals and governments can now be held to account with regards to the delta between who and what they say they are and how they actually treat their migrant, immigrant, and domestic manual labor force.

“In addition to forced labor, many vulnerable groups also face the grim prospect of forced marriages and forced medical procedures,” says Jon Purizhansky.

And human trafficking isn’t a relic of the past. As war- and climate- and remittance-based migration becomes more common and more necessary during times of famines, unrest, organized crime, pandemic-related inflation, and other reasons for global displacement, the levels of human trafficking, human slavery, and the indentured servitudes from floods of men and women without countries, without support, without documentation, and without hope. When you’re faced with imprisonment and slaughter, even slavery is sometimes preferable to certain death, especially if there’s a price on your head back at home, as is the case for many of the displaced. The global community must remain vigilant and recognize this growing problem before it gets even worse.

“Far too often, employers think that they just have to get workers here and integration will naturally occur,” notes Jon Purizhansky. “In reality, we have to invest in migrant communities and remember their humanity rather than simply exploit them as a source of labor.”

By providing Joblio-provided community management services for migrant workers, employers can drastically reduce expensive worker turnover while bolstering productivity and social cohesion across the workforce, including language support and community shopping trips. Joblio allows employers to help migrant workers upskill and integrate themselves into local communities.

“Migrant workers are looking for any opportunity to learn a new skill,” notes global relocation expert and Joblio CEO Jon Purizhansky. “Workers will eagerly pursue any learning opportunity they’re afforded, benefiting everyone. We just have to be willing to meet them in the middle.”

Most migrant workers have never experienced any level of agency or accountability for misbehavior and abuse. There’s generally no expectation of justice or rights when you’re fighting for basic food, water, shelter, and a modicum of income and safety at all. Migrant workers need to be told that they have rights and that they deserve justice. Then, they need to see it in action. Only after migrants are aware of their human rights and local norms can they truly integrate.

When I lived in Berlin and was jumping through the hoops required by the German government to keep my residency permit, I was mandated to attend both German language and civics course. Germany is very aggressive when it comes to their integration strategy when it comes to migrant and guest workers. Unfortunately, many migrants have learned to distrust the government, so government integration initiatives are often insufficient, making private sector integration efforts all the more important.

Joblio was designed to be a technology platform to support the global migrant labor industry with the sole purpose of preventing fraud and ensuring compliance with international and local human rights and labor laws in the processes of global human capital relocation. Joblio connects migrant workers with the employers, removing the middleman and the shadowy criminal world of the agent and the broker—and even the coyote.

Again from the Monaco Life interview:

“This is how the European Union gains illegal immigration, crime and all sorts of human rights violations. All this stems from the fact that unskilled labor is recruited unethically today across the world. The agents are transactional, and they add zero value. Joblio is a technology-powered, social impact project, a private enterprise that connects unskilled and low-skilled prospective labor migrants with employers in the developed world. Technology can connect employers and employees directly, driving out the middleman. With around 40% of Sub-Saharan adults and over 90% of south-east Asia with smartphones, Joblio is becoming ever more accessible even to the most modest of migrant workers.”

According to the interview, Joblio maintains three sets of legal expertise–immigration law, tax law, labor law–in client countries so that they can advocate for their labor pool for the entirety of their employment in guest countries and until their safe return to their home country.

Nobody ever thought that anything would be able to break apart the hegemony of global labor force human trafficking. Joblio’s success is, in fact, a black swan event. A black swan event, by definition, is “comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit of hindsight,” which is exactly how Joblio has taken the black market of the international migrant workforce and exposed it to the disinfectant of transparency and accountability.

All of this has already borne fruit in the form of the Abrahamic Business Circle’s Excellence Innovation Award in Human Rights Protection, which is only one of many, to be sure. Joblio was only launched in 2020 so it’ll be exciting to see how it changes the lives of people and families and women and children around the world, one registered account at a time.

I look forward to seeing Joblio disrupt the entire world of international migrant labor forces around the world the same way that UpWork disrupted online gig virtual “in the cloud” offshore labor.

Via Substack

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Miki Agrawal is an Actual Force of Nature with Tushy and Wild and Thinx — Chris Abraham

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Miki Agrawal is a Force of Tushy Nature - Chris Abraham Missives

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This isn’t the first time that disruptor Miki Agrawal has set out with the intention of challenging the status quo and fundamentally changing American culture. The acclaimed social entrepreneur began her journey with WILD, a farm-to-table, gluten-free pizza restaurant – the first of its kind in New York City. Next, she founded THINX, a company that creates reusable underwear for periods and also donates pads to Ugandan schoolgirls. Her most recent project is TUSHY, which makes affordable, modern bidet attachments for toilets, as well as other sustainable bathroom products. Together, Agrawal’s businesses are valued at over $200 million.

TUSHY helps ease environmental strife and fight the global sanitation crisis. Agrawal founded the company because wiping with toilet paper is not only ineffective but contributes to health issues like UTIs, hemorrhoids, yeast infections, anal fissures, and anal itching. Not to mention the fact that old-fashioned TP is an environmental disaster. Making toilet paper kills 15 million trees per year in America alone. Because of the Covid-19 toilet paper shortage in March 2020, the company saw its revenue jump 10 times over what was projected. TUSHY even broke $1 million in sales on a single day.

Aside from running her highly successful businesses based on breaking taboos, Agrawal also has written two bestselling books, Do Cool Sh*t and DisruptHer. In addition, she is a wife, mother, and identical twin sister to Daybreaker founder Radha Agrawal. She has been named among Fast Company’s Most Creative People, the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders, and Inc. magazine’s Most Impressive Women Entrepreneurs.

“I always loved questioning the things that didn’t make sense around me,” says Agrawal. Recently, she began asking herself: “Why are we wiping our butts with dry toilet paper? It doesn’t actually clean us, so it hurts our health and hygiene. It kills millions of trees per year. Yet we continue to waste money on it.”

Her solution was a simple attachable bidet that clips onto your toilet. TUSHY takes just 10 minutes to install and costs less than $100. Consumers are paid back within just three months by reducing their toilet paper consumption. And it definitely helps the planet. “It’s a no-brainer,” says Agrawal. “I love love love being able to question something and then provide a tangible solution to solve for it. To date, TUSHY has helped over 5 million trees from getting killed for toilet paper consumption.”

Furthermore, TUSHY has helped over 60,000 families gain access to clean toilets in India. The global sanitation crisis affects over three billion people globally and is one of the greatest human killers of our time.

Naturally, as a disruptor, Agrawal must confront naysayers all the time. “Skeptics who don’t get it want to hate on it and say stuff like, ‘We don’t want poopy water flying everywhere!’ or “Toilet bowl water? No thanks!’ But neither are true,” she says. “The water used for TUSHY is pulled from the wall, the same water you brush your teeth with, not from the tank or the bowl.”

Although initially it was a big challenge to get people to try TUSHY, now close to one million customers are spreading the word. The pandemic also had a huge impact on business due to nationwide toilet paper shortages. People began to realize that bidets are better economically and environmentally – and also leave them clean, too.

“I think it's safe to say that TUSHY is playing a big role in converting America into a nation of bidet lovers and clean-butt enthusiasts,” Agrawal says. “If every American started using a TUSHY, there would be 15 million more trees in the world. It takes just 1 pint of water to properly wash with TUSHY, whereas it takes 437 billion gallons of water and 253,000 tons of bleach to make toilet paper annually. Chronic use of wet wipes leads to significant skin breakdown and increased sensitivity, irritation, cracking and fissures. Not to mention they also clog up your plumbing system.”

To aspiring changemakers, Agrawal offers this advice. “There will always be tasks that feel tedious in every position, but those practices are important in building the muscle memory of a new skill set. It’s not always just fun fun fun when creating. It often takes a while for a skill to really engrain itself into the person, along with multitasking at a high level, so learning to be patient is as important as being hungry for more. It’s a balancing act between wanting to learn as much as possible while building a deeper skill set in some of the more tedious aspects of the job while finding patience.”

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