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YTD in 2015 alone. billion YTD 2015. The article chart below (click to enlarge) shows on-demand economy funding with and without Uber and Airbnb. CB Insights Unless You're Uber or Airbnb, The Mobile On-Demand Funding Boom Has Cooled covers the fact that Uber and Airbnb have attracted large sums of venture capital - $6.6

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

  Nature normally has articles with titles like Photons pair up like superconducting electrons.  Like all Nature articles, the topics are covered in-depth and are well researched. Their article  Flexible working: Science in the gig economy covers the growing number of gig workers in scientific fields.

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JUNE 8, 2017

  The company reported $795 million in revenue for 2016, up from $341 million in revenue for 2015. It lost $55 million in 2016 compared to $47 million in 2015. Key quote from the New York Times article Blue Apron Has a Good Product. It reports having $390 million in revenue in 2016, up 71% over 2015.

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JULY 2, 2018

The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) dug through social security data and found the number of self-employed grew between 2000 and 2015 (the most recent data available).    Their chart below shows the increase in share of earners reporting self-employment earnings.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

families with more than $5 million in investable assets exceeded 1 million for the first time in 2015.    This is one of many interesting stats about the growing number of rich Americans in the Baron's article Penta Millionaires: The New Rising Class. The number of U.S.

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APRIL 2, 2019

This is up from just 37% in 2015. We've long often covered the trend towards delayed retirement ( see our baby boomer section for many articles on this topic ). It shows that 52% of the full-time employees surveyed said they plan to postpone their retirement due to their financial situation.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Key quote from their article How to Position Your Company in the 3D Value Chain : In 2015, the entire 3D-printing market—which includes products made from plastics, ceramics, and metals—totaled $5 billion. Both Carbon and Desktop Metal have raised over $200 million in venture backing.  BCG expects this market to triple by 2020.

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APRIL 5, 2016

Key quote from the article: As measured by Katz and Krueger, the share of workers in alternative work arrangements climbed from 10.1% million in November 2015. The article chart below (click to enlarge) shows the growth of alternative work. in 2005 to 15.8% million (66.5%) from 14.2 million in February 2005 to 23.6

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

And Airbnb only had 250 business customers in total in 2015. All these firms now get a sizable share of their business from larger corporations and are looking to this sector for additional growth.    So what's going on? Three things. First, big companies are starting to embrace the gig economy. 

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OCTOBER 19, 2015

  The article focuses on  Prime Produce , a New York city coworking collective. Again from the article: Prime Produce is exploring a model in which many members will be co-owners of a cooperative firm, which will manage the proceeds of their dues and pay rent to the sympathetic investors who own the buildings. 

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JANUARY 6, 2015

The Pacific Standard's interesting article What Was the Job? Needless to say, the article does not see this shift as a good thing.   Despite seriously disliking this shift, the article more or less accepts it as fait acompli. .  claims 2014 was the year the job broke. We also agree this shift is fait acompli.

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DECEMBER 22, 2015

Economy is Only Doing Half its Job  and the progressive Economic Policy Institute released their Top Charts of 2015.  Key quote from the HBR article: America is producing ample prosperity. Large    As 538 points out in their article on the study , the news is not all bad.

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JANUARY 10, 2019

The Mother Jones article The Gig Economy is a Big Nothingburger is an excellent example of the response to a new paper - Understanding Trends in Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States - from the economists Lawrence Katz and Alan Krueger.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

The number of citations has accelerated since, with Google reporting more hits on this term this month (January 2015) than all of 2010. My guess is this term will have 3x or so the number of citations in 2015 than it did in 2014.  There's been a number of good articles on digital nomads lately.

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DECEMBER 28, 2015

Oil, of course, fell to below $40 per barrel in 2015, and as we pointed out in our 2015 trends this had both positive and negative effects.  The collapse of China's growth and a weak European Union economy led to a steep declines in most commodities prices in 2015, with the Bloomberg commodities index falling 26%.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The article is authored by myself and Gene Zanio, CEO of MBO Partners, and is based on research conducted as part of the 2015 MBO Partners State of Independence study. As the article chart below shows, 83% say they say have a lot of choice (48%) or some choice (35%) over who they work with. 

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JULY 6, 2017

As the World Economic Forum article  The numbers that make China the world’s largest sharing economy  points out, China's sharing economy is large and growing rapidly. Key quote: In 2015, the sector was reportedly worth $229 billion and is predicted to grow by 40% annually over the coming five years. 

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NOVEMBER 11, 2014

The article The Contingent Workforce Management Program of 2016 provides their view of how corporate contingent labor programs will evolve over the next couple of years. Key quote from the article: In 2009, the estimated percentage of contingent workforce utilization within the average enterprise hovered around 16% or 17%. The

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JULY 2, 2015

Time's This is Why You Should Consider Dumping Your Traditional Job covers data from the 2015 MBO Partners State of Independence study showing that 79% of independent workers are happier working on their own.    The article also points out: To some extent, the study’s findings are to be expected.

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JANUARY 19, 2015

  Internet products for pets were a part of this and Popular Science's article CES 2015: The Internet of Pets  covers several connected pet products. Key quote: A new breed of connected technology aims to boost Sparky's health and safety, and help him have a little bit of fun, too.

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JULY 9, 2015

  Last fall in our article Why the Self-Employed Flourish  we pointed out the key reasons independent workers tend to be happy and satisfied with their work: Most independent workers have. work that matches their strengths and interests and a job that gives them a sense of purpose. They

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

  As the article points out, the results from the 2015 MBO Partners State of Independence study show the number of full-time independent workers has been somewhat flat over the past 2 years (despite the article's title, it has not declined).

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MAY 15, 2017

They asked this in response to a number of recent negative press articles on the gig economy.   What these articles miss is the trends driving this growth are powerful and, if anything, getting stronger. According to the National Technology Readiness Survey , in 2015 22.4 million Americans spent $57.4

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JANUARY 7, 2016

  2015 was another record setting year and pretty much everyone in the staffing industry is predicting good times ahead. These are good times for the temporary staffing industry. As the American Staffing Association chart below shows, the industry has been booming since the steep declines caused by the Great Recession. 

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AUGUST 2, 2016

  Our 2015 was also too low, but better than 2014.  See our 2010 article What's the Definition of a Coworking Facility in our old Coworking Labs Blog for our definition.  Interestingly enough, by 2020 some Starbucks stores might be considered coworking spaces.  One last point. in the coming weeks.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

  Metro Focus has an article on Boffices , which they define as Bar + Office. billion mobile workers by 2015 , with 212 million of these in North America. .   Joining Starbucks and other coffee shops in offering touchdown spaces are a wide variety locations including libraries, hotels, chains like McDonald's and others.

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APRIL 4, 2016

The Forbes article Financial Planner Takes Tough-Love Money Advice On The Road  reports on the first financial planning truck I've heard of.  From the NYT article: Ms. The use of trucks as mobile commerce platforms continues expand. Just in the last week the press have reported on two interesting examples.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

Millennial Independents in 2015: 8 Things the "Work to Live" Generation Wants You to Know , from MBO Partners, summarizes detailed information on Millennials (born 1890 - 2000) from the MBO Partners 2015 State of Independence study. See the article for more details. The infographic below is also from the article.

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JANUARY 25, 2016

NPR's Goodbye Jobs, Hello 'Gigs': How One Word Sums Up A New Economic Reality  covers the history of the word "gig" and suggests it as the 2015 word of the year. Now we have to get more people to understand that the shift to the gig economy isn't all bad. 

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JULY 1, 2015

Two articles published yesterday nicely illustrate this. The infographic below has more findings from the 2015 MBO Partners State of Independence study. At a higher level they are doing this because it makes them happier. You are the boss, but at the same time you are still a mother.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Even with their aggressive growth plans, WeWork is aiming for 46,000 members in 2015.   The infographic below is from the Forbes article and shows that WeWork and Big Coworking are definitely for real.   We also think there's plenty of room for other players. Coworking'

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

." This is the opening paragraph from The Nation article Did the Opioid Epidemic Help Donald Trump Win? The article covers research showing Trump was hugely popular in counties with high rates of of death from drugs, alcohol and suicide. The opioid epidemic is a stunningly large problem. Opioid addiction effects everyone.

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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 Remote work] was a great strategy for the 90s and the 80s, but not for 2015.”

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