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MARCH 5, 2019

The indicators cover the time frame from 1996 to 2017 and will be updated annually. The most interesting finding from the new indicators is that early stage entrepreneurship was near a 20 year high in 2017.    In 2017 this worked out to be.33%   In 2017 this worked out to be.33% This is just shy of the.34

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Another important study finding is between 2017 and 2019, the proportion of independent professionals who said they have a lot of choice in picking their clients jumped from 48 percent to 58 percent.    The study was done before COVID-19, which has obviously changed things.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

safety report that provides details on the number of sexual assaults, murders and fatal crashes that occurred through its platform in 2017 and 2018. The New York Times article headline on the report - Uber Says 3,045 Sexual Assaults Were Reported in U.S. .  Last week Uber released a U.S. billion in the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2018

  According to a New York Times article on the funding round , a key reason Wag can raise this much money is the value of their data. Key quote from the article: "Data on the real-world comings and goings of internet users — and, evidently, their dogs — is a highly sought-after commodity among technology companies."

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

.  But even more recently, Atelier switched to calling it the creator economy in their Harvard Business Review article The Creator Economy Needs a Middle Class. This article points out one of the issues facing the creator economy is while a few creators make lots of money, most make very little.  On Sportify.

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MAY 29, 2018

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (The Fed) recently released their 2017 Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S.   We'll have more from the 2017 Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in future articles.  Households.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Also, serviced office provider Regus lost one third of their market value after announcing that their operating profit for 2017 would be “materially below market expectations”.    The common factor across all these articles is the coworking giant WeWork, which was profiled last week in an extensive Wall Street Journal article.

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JUNE 26, 2017

As the chart below (click to enlarge) from the Axios article Venture Capital Investment in AI skyrockets shows, VCs have continued to pour money into AI in 2017. The CNBC article  Everyone keeps talking about A.I.— Virtual reality is also attracting a lot of investment.    It's not just startups.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

They found that the median pay for full-time book authors was $20,300 in 2017, and that number decreased to $6,080 when part-time writers were included.  The Pay Survey 2019: What 1,400+ Freelancers Get Paid to Write study surveyed writers of all types, with most writing articles and blog posts.

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JUNE 28, 2018

But it's nicely covered the Forbes article  Millennials Are Ordering More Food Delivery, But Are They Killing The Kitchen, Too? According to the article, time starved millennials in particular are cooking less because it's so easy to order food from platforms such as Uber Eats, Door Dash and Grub Hub.

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JULY 22, 2020

  Key quote from Crunchbase's article on Thrasio's recent funding : " the company has acquired nearly 60 Amazon businesses, including 17 in the last quarter.    In our Top 10 Small Business Trends of 2017 we wrote: Platforms have become so important that small businesses need a platform strategy.

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AUGUST 28, 2017

2017, with 4.45 This data comes from The Consumer Technology Association via the Axios article Demand for Drones is Exploding. The chart below (click to enlarge) is from the article. Over 3 million drones are expected to be sold in the U.S. million forecast to be sold in 2018.

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JULY 26, 2018

Bloomberg's Inside Google's Shadow Workforce covers the use by Google of what they call TVCs, or “temps, vendors and contractors" According to the article about half of Google's workforce is comprised of TVCs.    We've recently covered a number of studies confirming this.

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JANUARY 9, 2018

spaces over the forecast period (2017 to 2022) is, by coworking's standards, a relatively modest 9%.    This is due to the increasing size of coworking spaces ( see our global forecast article for more details ) and results in the number of U.S. coworking forecast projects continued growth for the U.S.

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JUNE 14, 2018

Getting somewhat lost in the debates around the results from the BLS's 2017 Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangements survey (CWS) are several interesting findings about independent contractors.  We also recommend the New York Times article Maybe the Gig Economy Isn't Reshaping Work After All.

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JUNE 19, 2017

Recode even calls it Uber's no good, very bad 2017. The chart below (click to enlarge), from the excellent Quartz article  There’s still one thing people like about Uber , nicely illustrates this.   The article also covers the myriad of scandals, problems and issues Uber is facing.

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JUNE 22, 2017

article What Do Millennials Want From Their Employers, Exactly? The study the article refers to is Deloitte's 2017 Millennial Survey. This Study Sums It Up in 1 Sentence says Millennials want: "Freelance flexibility with full-time stability" This is, of course, not just what Millennials want.

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

According to the International Federation of Robotics, an industry body, worldwide sales of robots increased by 31% in 2017.  For example, we featured Baxter in our 2013 article The Rise of Robo Sapiens  because we were so impressed by the company. And in many ways, it is. " Expect to see more cobots in the future.

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JUNE 6, 2017

The New York Times article  Steady Jobs, With Pay and Hours That Are Anything But covers research by the JP Morgan Chase Institute showing that income volatility, while most pronounced for those with lower income, is common across all earning levels. The excellent article chart below (click to enlarge) nicely summarizes this data.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

The chart below, from the New York Times article  Workers Hardest Hit by Recession Are Joining in Recovery , shows this group's unemployment rate is down to 5.1%. .  Economic growth has led to a jobs recovery for even the hardest hit segment of workers, those with less than a high school education.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Airbnb expects their corporate business to quadruple in 2017. Crowd talent provider Gigwalk announced a partnership with Deloitte to jointly target enterprises.    Coworking giant WeWork revealed that large enterprises are fueling their growth. Uber and Lyft have been gaining share in the corporate market.  Three things.

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MAY 31, 2018

As the article chart below shows (click to enlarge), the 9.9% The article is not positive about this group (which the author says he's part of).   This is also the theme of the 2017 book The Dream Hoarders.  The 2016 median for this group was $2.4 Above that and you graduate into the top 1%.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

workforce used an online labor platform during their reference week in May of 2017. Or as the Wall Street Journal put it in their article on the BLS study , “A government survey designed to measure the gig economy shows just how challenging that can be”. They found about 1% of the U.S. This works out to about 1.6 million people.

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MAY 22, 2017

The New York Times article Baby Boomers Look to Senior Concierge Services to Raise Income  nicely covers where these two intersect - older Americans earning money by helping other older Americans.  The data from the 2017 Intuit On-Demand Economy (ODE) study certainly supports the view that boomers are active in the ODE. 

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APRIL 3, 2018

The findings of this study reinforce the findings from the 2017 On-Demand Workforce Study we conducted with Intuit.  These study findings are discussed in more detail in the Aspen Institute's article  New Findings Reveal the On-Demand Economy Plays Key Role in Improving People’s Financial Stability.

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JULY 24, 2017

These findings are reinforced by data from the 2017 MBO Partners State of Independence study. Again from Wheatley: ‘The positive effects associated with informal flexibility and working at home, offer further support to the suggestion that schedule control is highly valued and important to employees “enjoying” work.’.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

Vanity Fair's The Obama Administration Is Finally Getting Serious About the On-Demand Economy covers the plan by the Department of Labor and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to run the contingent worker supplement as part of the May 2017 current population survey.    In the forecasting world, we call this a signal.

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MAY 17, 2017

" The article chart below also illustrates this growth. " We're working through the 2017 data from the MBO Partners State of Independence study and the number of higher earning independents has again increased. .  Crain's The gig economy comes to law  covers the expanding use of contract lawyers.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

  The article chart below shows this data for various cities (click on the chart to enlarge). Last week we covered two of these studies: an Ardent Partners study showing that about 1/3rd of large company workforces are currently contingent and the percentage is forecast to grow to 45% by 2017.

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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% The BLS has not fielded this survey since 2005 due to a lack of funding, but plans to run it again in May of 2017. The article chart below (click to enlarge) shows the growth of alternative work.

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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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JANUARY 22, 2015

The Ardent Partners chart below from the article shows survey data on this shift. According to the article, the big shift is away from traditional staffing firms and towards: Private Talent Pools. Ardent is predicting that by the end of 2017, almost 45 percent of the global workforce will consist of contingent workers.

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

 We first reported on this in our article Food Trucks as Lean Startups. billion in 2017. .  They focus on rapid prototyping, business flexibility, cash and resource conservation and a laser-like focus on customers to quickly adapt to market needs.

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OCTOBER 23, 2017

Upwork and the Freelancers Union released their 2017 Freelancing in America study last week. The key finding is the estimated number of freelancers continued to grow in 2017, reaching 57.3 million in 2017.  million in 2017 from 19.1 This is the 4th year of this study. million, up from 53 million in 2014.

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JANUARY 8, 2018

economy created fewer jobs in 2017 than in 2016 and economic growth was moderate.  job growth slowed in 2017 to an average of 171,000 jobs created per month, down from an average of 186,000 jobs created each month in 2016. 2017 was also had the lowest U.S.   U.S. job creation total since 2010.  to 3.0%.

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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 Yahoo rather famously did this several years ago and Google and Apple have always tried to limit telecommuting.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

Key quote from the Associated Press article Richer US households fueling a hot job sector: ‘wealth work’ : The main driver of growth in these jobs is the expansion of the upper-middle class. households earned $200,000 a year or more in 2017, according to the Census Bureau. Nearly 8% of U.S.

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