Small Business Labs

JANUARY 15, 2013

Our overall economic outlook for 2013 is for continued moderate growth with U.S. 2013 will see rapid increases in the number of small businesses using powerful yet inexpensive cloud-based data and analytical tools.    We borrowed this trend from the 2013 Future Workforce Trends from our friends at MBO Partners.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 18, 2014

There are several interesting new data points on the increasing use of online talent marketplaces like Elance-oDesk, Freelancer.com, etc. work reports from Elance-oDesk, which recently merged. .  work reports from Elance-oDesk, which recently merged. The marketplace themselves are also reporting continued strong growth. 

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Small Business Labs

MAY 27, 2014

  Using contingent labor has gotten easier and more effective due to the growth of online talent exchanges such as Elance and oDesk, improvements in collaborative technologies for managing non-employees and growing numbers independent workers available for hire. We think this is a big miss and is leading to the under counting of U.S.

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