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Survey: 29% of American Workers Have Side Jobs

Small Business Labs

  So we're just getting to a survey on side gigs that CareerBuilder released in September. Key quote from the survey press release : According to a new CareerBuilder survey, 29 percent of workers have a side hustle, a trend that is especially strong among the millennial demographic.

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Academic Studies Show Gig Economy Larger Than Government Data Suggests

Small Business Labs

.  Making Ends Meet: The Role of Informal Work in Supplementing Americans’ Income looked at data from the Federal Reserve Board's Survey of Household Economics and Decision Making (SHED). The study found "28 percent of adults age 18 and older participated in informal work for pay during the survey reference month."

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New study will explore the impact of economic turmoil on workplace experience

Workplace Insight

People’s workplace experience in the wake of recent economic upheavals is to be investigated as part of a major new survey led by Cardiff University and funded mainly by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The last Skills and Employment Survey took place in 2017. This figure was 2.5

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AI may boost productivity, but we are already becoming reliant on it, and that’s a problem

Workplace Insight

This year’s edition tracks research, development, technical performance, responsible practices, economics, policy, public opinion, and more. Additionally, many executives surveyed believe AI will lead to job cuts, with 43 percent anticipating staff reductions. Google’s Gemini comes in even higher at $191 million.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

Success

The women surveyed in Guidant’s “ 2023 Small Business Trends ” report were primarily motivated to become entrepreneurs due to being “ready to be their own boss” (28%) and “[dissatisfied] with corporate America” (23%), with only 13% seeking to pursue their passions.

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Seeking Freelance Flexibility With Full-Time Stability

Small Business Labs

The study the article refers to is Deloitte's 2017 Millennial Survey. Deloitte surveyed 8,000 Millennials from 30 countries and found: "In spite of perceived across-the-board advantages of working as freelancers or consultants, nearly two-thirds of millennials said they prefer full-time employment. . 

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The Online Platform Economy as a Safety Net

Small Business Labs

." Regular readers may remember this was one of the key findings in our On-Demand Workforce Workforce study conducted with Intuit and released in 2017.    We also found 41% of the workers surveyed had faced a financial shock over the prior year.

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