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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Silicon Republic's Future of Work Week has an interesting set of articles on this topic. In 2012 we included "Being Human" in our Top 10 Small Business Trends list. It covers pretty much all the standard future of work topics like AI, digital transformation, the changing nature of careers, etc. 

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  The chart on the right is from the article. percent in 2012 to 116 million, or about 37 percent of the total U.S. percent to just over 53 million in 2012, or about 17 percent of the total population. percent minority in 2012. . percent to just over 53 million in 2012, or about 17 percent of the total population.

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OCTOBER 31, 2013

Good article from NPR on bikes outselling cars in most European countries. The chart to the right is from the article. In 2012 there were roughly 18 million bikes sold in the U.S.   But if you exclude kids bikes (which the industry defines as bikes with wheels smaller than 20 inches), 2012 U.S.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2016

As the article points out, there's broad agreement that most of the sharing economy companies - Uber, Airbnb, etc. Back in 2012 we suggested "rental economy" was a more accurate descriptor. This is what do we call what continues to be commonly called the  "sharing economy""?

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

 We wrote a follow-up article on this topic in 2012 after we learned high end nannies in New York and London could make more than $200,000 per year in total compensation. According to a recent Wall Street Journal article : Demand for the well-staffed home is on the rise, according to agencies and house managers alike. .

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DECEMBER 4, 2014

The New York Times article Shops on Wheels, but the Goods aren't Sold From the Trunk covers the growing trend towards trucks being used as mobile retail/service outlets.   When we released our research report on food trucks in 2012 we recognized that food trucks were part of a broader shift to mobile retail. Goldenberg said.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Fully 36% of blacks ages 25 and older had never been married in 2012, up from 9% in 1960. For In 2012, 16% of whites and 26% of Hispanics had never been married. New York Magazine also weighs in on this topic with an article covering a study looking how college students currently think about marriage.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2015

But as the Harvard Business Review article  The Sharing Economy Isn't About Sharing At All points out: the sharing economy isn't really a “sharing” economy at all; it’s an access economy. " Because of this, the authors of this article think this sector should be called the access economy.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

.   NVCA  also reported that the level of 2012 venture funding will likely substantially fall relative to 2011. According to the NVCA, the number of these rounds has fallen by almost one-third in 2012 versus 2011. Business Insider has a good article on this startup cash crunch.   The reason is quite simple.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

  It's from the Wall Street Journal article Stores Confront New World of Reduced Shopper Traffic. in 2012 and 14.6% The startling chart below shows shows retail foot traffic is rapidly and dramatically declining. The data firm tracked declines of 28.2% in 2011, 16.3% But people aren't just buying online.

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JANUARY 26, 2015

There are many articles on the study, including: The Atlantic has my favorite article, mostly because it points out how small Uber and the sharing economy are relative to the U.S. Key quote: About 160,000 drivers have fired up Uber on their phone since 2012. Uber drivers agree.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The Forbes article Survey Says Americans are Losing Their Appetite for McDonald's, Taco Bell and Burger King covers a study showing that consumers - and especially Millennials - are choosing fast casual restaurants over fast food places. Key   We're not surprised by either development and see them as linked.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The New York Times article High Debt and Falling Demand chronicles the financial problems facing U.S. According to article the number of pets in the U.S.  Here's the data from the article: from 2006 to 2011 the number of dogs declined from 72 million to 70 million. veterinarians.

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AUGUST 1, 2013

An alert reader sent me to the article  Market Trends Show the Power of Pet Humanization. over 2012. . It's forecast to be up 6% over 2012. It's from the research folks at Packaged Facts. They do studies on consumer markets, including pet spending. They recently released their 2013 - 2014 U.S. Pet Market Outlook.

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JANUARY 24, 2013

The New York Times sumed up the data quite well with their article title, Unionization Rate Lowest in a Century.  Key quote from the article: "The percentage of workers in unions fell to 11.3 percent, down from 11.8 percent in 2011. That brought unionization to its lowest level since 1912, when it was 11.1

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

The Towers Watson 2011/2012 Talent Management and Rewards study has some fascinating insights on the disconnect between what workers want and what employers think they want.   Workforce has a good article on the study and this topic. 

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AUGUST 15, 2012

There's been a flurry of articles on Gen Y (also called millennials, born 1980 to 2000) not being as interested in owning cars as prior generations. " The quick summary of these article is Gen Y doesn't view cars as a necessity like prior generations.  Key quote: "The rate of U.S.  

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JULY 23, 2014

The article goes on to compare 2013 with 2012.   Go to the article for more details. 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). Very cool chart and a great way to visually represent data.

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APRIL 21, 2015

Freelancer.com, one of the world’s largest freelance hubs, reported that even back in 2012 more than one-third of their 3 million users were Indians. Here are a couple of other articles on coworking in India: Tech in Asia on 6 Coworking Spaces in Mumbai. There's also a rapidly growing startup community in India.

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JANUARY 7, 2016

In the Staffing Industry Review article Human Cloud, IT Staffing Firms Eye Each Other - Warily he's quoted as saying: “Almost all large, sophisticated corporations are flat-out refusing to use non-W2 temporary labor.   An interesting example comes from a quote from Peter Dameris, CEO of large staffing firm On Assignment.

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APRIL 13, 2012

Recent articles on this topic from the corporate point of view include: 1.  Also from Staffing Industry Analysts is an article on their new certification program for contingent workforce professionals.  Aberdeen Research reports that  26% of the average company’s workforce is contingent.

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

As we pointed out in our 2012 article The Rise of Small and Micro Manufacturing , of the 330,000 U.S. A powerful trend that gets little coverage is the growth of small manufacturing. manufacturing firms 80% have fewer than 50 employees and about 36% have 4 or fewer employees. And these numbers understate the number of small U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

There's been a regular stream of articles about robots and automation taking jobs from humans of late.   This article focuses on growing income equality. This is similar finding to a study that we covered last year in our article The Polarization of Jobs. jobs will be automated over the next 20 years.

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MAY 14, 2013

Key quote from SiliconValley.com's article Latest cleantech funding woes spark fears of industry slide : New figures from the National Venture Capital Association paint a sobering picture: Investments in alternative energy and related fields have dropped for five of the past six quarters. .  While good news for the U.S.

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MAY 31, 2016

.  The reality is in just a few years - Uber went live 2011 and Lyft in 2012 - ridesharing has fundamentally changed the taxi business.  s Taxi Industry  is one of many articles chronicling how much share ridesharing companies have taken from taxis.   Fortune's Uber and Lyft Have Absolutely Gutted L.A.’s

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JULY 6, 2011

.  Stock market analysts are forecasting S&P 500 companies, on average, will see earnings growth of 17% in 2011 and 14% in 2012.    Key quote from the Motley Fool's article The Earnings Boom : "Ten years ago, less than a third of S&P revenue came from overseas.     ."

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FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The CPA Success blog has a good article on the new Chartered Global Management Accountant designation.   Regular readers will know Being Human is one of our Top 10 Small Business Trends of 2012. This is a joint effort between two large accounting associations, the AICPA and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

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MARCH 21, 2012

The recent Global Coworking Unconference Conference left many with the same impression it did Shareable's Neil Gorenflo - that " coworking's all grow'd up "   GigaOm's Jessica Stillman echoes this view, writing in her article The conversion to coworking 2.0  Only 27% do not plan to expand in 2012.

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JUNE 23, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Street Food Gets Real | Main | Please Take "The Organizational Use of Video Storytelling" Survey » June 23, 2010 More on the Growth of Small Farms and Local Food Interesting article in the Washington Post on mobile slaughterhouses. 

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MARCH 20, 2017

This stat comes from the Washington Post article What Hasbro’s Pie Face signals about the future of fun.  The growing business importance of social sharing and creating performances became very clear to us during our 2012 research project on food trucks. It's a pretty simple game.

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APRIL 3, 2014

 The Forbes article How to Manage Your Biggest Investment: Your Kids  s ays a child born in 2012 will cost his/her parents $241,000 to raise. .  Because of this, many are saying they aren't going to have kids so they can focus on the other two. One of the reasons it's hard is the cost of raising a child.

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JUNE 12, 2012

The post is based on MIT Technology Review's interesting article Are Smart Phones Spreading Faster Than Any Technology in Human History.  Key data from this article and lifted directly from Pink's blog post includes: In 2006, smart phones accounted for just 6% of U.S. mobile phones sold that year. billion PCs in use.

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MARCH 30, 2017

Again from the Quartz article: What IBM should value most, says John Sullivan, a professor of management at San Francisco State University who specializes in HR strategy, are better ideas. “It In 2012, 24% of employees were spending 80% or more of their time working remotely. In 2016, that number grew by four percentage points to 43%.

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

Key quote from his article: I expect that more than one-third of all men between 25 and 54 will be out work at mid-century. And, of course, the 2012 book The End of Men popularized the term which has been used in academics since at least the late 1990s.  And Summers expects the trend not just to continue, but accelerate.

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JUNE 30, 2014

 Adweek quickly countered with an article titled Gallup's Buzzy Social Media Report 'Deeply Flawed' Key quote: These claims have caused a pretty good media ruckus despite having a methodology that appears flawed on multiple levels. .     Needless to say, not everyone agrees.

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