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Here’s Why Your 2024 Corporate Workplace Strategy Needs Coworking

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Coworking started as a grassroots movement and has evolved into a legitimate industry, especially after the 2008 recession disrupted traditional office leases. Indeed, what started out as a scrappy, not-for-profit social movement has evolved into an industry in its own right. And thus an industry was born.

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Lessons From Past Recessions

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For anyone who lived through the fear and uncertainty of the 2008 financial crisis, hearing ‘recession’ from news anchors and pundits can bring up anxiety and fear. The most recent recession was in 2020 and only lasted a couple of months, whereas the 2008 recession lasted about 18 months. Beef up your emergency fund.

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4 Steps Everyone in Their 20s Should Take to Beat a Potential Recession

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Investments toward your future should be the last expense on your chopping block. Consider the record-setting 128-month expansion following 2008’s Great Recession. For instance, Uber, Airbnb and Square were all founded during the 2008 recession. On top of that, the market created careers and industries that didn’t exist before.

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Health Grows to 17.6% of U.S. Economy

Small Business Labs

of GDP in 2008.   These include an aging population requiring more health care, rising levels of chronic disease among the young and the expanding use of expensive, high-tech health equipment and pharmaceuticals.  auto industry - small shifts in its GDP share add up.  of 2009 U.S. health care costs. 

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Best of the Best: How to Create a Personal Brand Like DJ Khaled

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When he was a teenager, the world taught him that life isn’t fair, at the expense of those parents. By any definition he’d reached undeniable success in music by 2008, and he seemed to have a reasonable blueprint to sustain it. Khaled exists primarily in hip-hop, a genre and industry that has so often been fueled by competitiveness.

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Collaborating With The Enemy: Competitive Advantage? | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

Not surprisingly this group includes mentors within his own industry, but what is unique about Scudamore is that some of these mentors run the businesses he competes against every day. Working in tandem with your competitors has benefits in addition to getting a good beat to what’s happening in your industry.

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Don't charge by the hour! | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

by Stefan Töpfer on Feb 12, 2008 It always amazes me to see how many businesses still charge by the hour – it is a business killer. So if you work in an industry that charges by the hour and you need more work you know what to do. Charging For Time is a Bad Idea « Brett’s Blog Said on February 13th, 2008 at 2:27 pm [.]

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