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Top Ten Small Business Trends for 2012

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  2012 will see more small businesses recognize and take advantage of this key competitive advantage.   This growing ability to network, collaborate and socialize is making independent work more attractive, and 2012 will see the trend towards independent work continue to grow.    Technology Trends.

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MBO Partners’ 8th Annual State of Independence Report

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These are independent workers who would prefer a traditional job (cluster analysis is used to identify this group). As the study chart above shows, the percentage of full-time Reluctant Independents has fallen consistently since 2012 due to the improving economy creating opportunities for reluctants to return to traditional employment. 

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The Strong Job Market's Impact on Self-Employment

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 The share of reluctant independents fell to 24% in 2017, down from 26% in 2016 and 34% in 2012.   We'll have more on this topic once we finish the analysis of the data from the 2018 MBO Partners State of Independence study. We plan on releasing this study in a few months.

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Study: Gig Economy Growing Fast, Creating Mostly Part-Time Jobs

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As the chart below - which is taken from the Wall Street Journal's excellent summary of the study  - shows, the number of Americans working in the on-demand economy has increased almost 10 fold since 2012. For another analysis of these studies, see Bloomberg View's Your Uber Driver Probably Has Another Job.

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Great Visualization of the Changing Part-Time Workforce

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The article goes on to compare 2013 with 2012. This analysis shows fewer part-timers for economic reasons and a decline in the overall percentage of people working part-time. Most industries have a greater share of part-time workers (PTER + PTNER) than in the past (the increase in PTER exceeds the decline in PTNER for most industries).

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The 2013 State of Independence Report Released

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 This is the 3rd year we've worked with MBO Partners on this study and it's the most in-depth analysis of the independent workforce (freelancers, the self-employed, etc.) million in 2012. The 2013 MBO Partners State of Independence Report was released today. we're aware of. million, up from 16.9

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