Small Business Labs

JANUARY 7, 2019

.  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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Small Business Labs

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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Workplace Insight

JANUARY 30, 2023

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.

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Workplace Insight

APRIL 17, 2024

Additionally, many executives surveyed believe AI will lead to job cuts, with 43 percent anticipating staff reductions. The original transformer model (2017) cost around $900 to train, while RoBERTa Large (2019) was $160,000. The report also highlights a trend noted last year: training models is getting expensive.

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Allwork

JULY 25, 2022

A Gartner survey shows that 65% of respondents feel that the last two years caused a shift in their values outside of work, and forced some to reconcile with the role that work plays in their everyday lives. . In 2017, Leberecht launched The House Of Beautiful Business with the help of business partner?Till Till Grusche. .

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 22, 2019

Several recent surveys focused on the pay rates on income of independent and freelance writers. The Authors Guild’s 2018 Author Income Survey collected pay data from over 5,000 published book authors.   The second survey comes from The Make a Living Writing blog.   But again there is good news.

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Workplace Insight

APRIL 28, 2022

Investor enquiries across all UK commercial property also continued to rise, according to the RICS Commercial Property Market Survey, Q1 2022. Respondents to the survey saw a notable increase in UK office demand in Q1 2022 with the net balance improving to +30 percent from a flat picture at the end of 2021.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 25, 2017

71%  of healthcare executives surveyed said they are already using on-demand labor platforms, and the same percent believe that building a strong contingent workforce will help them win the war on talent. This data comes from Accenture's Digital Health Vision 2017.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 29, 2019

  To better understand this issue, a series of financial well-being questions were added to the MBO Partners State of Independence study survey this year (Emergent Research works with MBO Partners on this ongoing study). The CFPB's 2017 study also had similar findings. 

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Allwork

AUGUST 8, 2022

A 2017 Coworking Survey by DeskMag suggests that more than 1 million people worldwide will work in a coworking space this year. . Where will you be working on August 9? . Whether or not you choose to mark Coworking Day on August 9, take a moment to consider how far the coworking industry has come since its beginnings. .

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MARCH 9, 2023

In fact, a 2021 survey commissioned by Stackla found that “79% of people say [user-generated content] highly impacts their purchasing decisions” and “56% of consumers say they’re more influenced by social media images and videos when online shopping now than they were before the pandemic.” Of course, my experience isn’t unique.

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Small Business Labs

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. This report "examines the economic well-being and financial lives of Americans and their families."

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Small Business CEO

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

According to Cisco, 82% of traffic on the internet will be due to videos in 2022- 15 times higher than in 2017. Further, another survey by Cisco states that a million minutes of videos are crossed over the internet every second. These statistics highlight why video marketing is gaining traction more than ever before.

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Success

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Nearly half of Americans have three friends or fewer, according to a May 2021 study from the Survey Center on American Life. She launched the app in 2017, and it’s now used by 3.5 Years later, they still talk regularly. million women every month. Peanut has grown 300% since the pandemic, testifying to the need among mothers.

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Success

MARCH 8, 2023

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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JANUARY 1, 2023

million people above the age of 18 were living with a mental illness, according to the 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. As of 2017 , more than 90,000 police-reported U.S. Your employees look to you to set an example, and many of them may be struggling with a mental illness —after all, in 2020 alone, 52.9

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Success

AUGUST 6, 2021

This 2017 standard for success became a No. Based on numerous surveys and peer-reviewed studies, the Heaths take care in understanding the data and science of indecision and decision-making. For many of us, it’s not always that easy. Principles: Life and Work. By Ray Dalio. 1 New York Times best-seller for good reason.

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MARCH 5, 2023

According to the 2021 “ American Time Use Survey ” by the U.S. This article originally appeared in the September 2017 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated. Passive vs. active leisure activities during free time What happened to Cathy was something that happens to many of us at one time or another. You’ll be glad you did.

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 1, 2018

workforce used an online labor platform during their reference week in May of 2017. They also found their survey questions "did not work as intended" and resulted in a large number of false positives. The second driver of false positives comes from aspirational questions in surveys.  They found about 1% of the U.S.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 22, 2017

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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Small Business Labs

JULY 26, 2018

  A November, 2017 SCORE study found that small business owners reported a 37% increase in hiring gig workers over the prior six months. They also reported more than half of surveyed small business owners plan to increase their use of non-employee talent over the next year. And it's not just big companies. 

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The Small Business Blog

APRIL 3, 2019

In fact, we found that over 76% of small businesses that took the survey, do all their marketing online, with only 14% still using offline methods such as advertising, events or direct mail. The results of the survey mirror recent reports siting the decline of traditional marketing agencies, particularly advertising.

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On The Job

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

A CareerBuilder survey from 2017 found that these were some of the questions asked by job candidates, so you might be breathing a little easier, knowing that you could never ask anything that unprofessional. It’s also not unusual to worry that you might say something dumb. Or why the hiring manager’s aura doesn’t like you?

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 25, 2018

Euromonitor International’s 2017 Global Consumer Trends Survey shows that nearly 50% of respondents across all generations aspire to being self-employed. Millennials especially have an entrepreneurial nature, shifting away from the “traditional” 9-to-5 career towards one that affords more freedom.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

." 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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Workplace Insight

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A different Statistica survey found that 31 percent of UK social media users aged between 16 and 24 years reported spending between 1-2 hours per day using TikTok, while 25 percent reported spending between 3-4 hours per day on the social video app. In 2022, data from Statisica revealed UK users spent an average of 4.25

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 13, 2017

Last fall 700+ assistants responded to a survey sent out by Office Dynamics. This blog is part of our 2017 Blog-A-Thon. Basics include: travel planning, appointment coordination, meeting preparation, all facets of communication, organizational skills, and time and project management. Do you know what rose to the top of the list?

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Ardent Partners recently released their 2016-2017 State of Contingent Workforce Management report.    The study is based on a survey and series of interviews with mostly HR and procurement professionals at large corporations. 

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MARCH 28, 2023

A 2021 study by the “American Perspectives Survey” found that “15% of men have no close friendships at all, a fivefold increase since 1990.” Finding your friends That began to change in 2017. Always a fitness buff, he joined a men’s fitness group called F3. “It

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 12, 2017

Nearly all HR managers (95 percent) and employees (99 percent) surveyed by OfficeTeam said it’s important for staff to have strong emotional intelligence. This blog is part of our 2017 Blog-A-Thon. Sure, having a high IQ is great, but how does your EQ (emotional quotient) at work stack up? Register for the webinar today!

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Success

JANUARY 7, 2023

According to a 2022 Microsoft survey , nearly 50% of employees—and just over 50% of managers—say that they’re feeling burned out at work, at a time when people are already working more hours than in years past. This article was published in August 2017 and has been updated. Keep your energy high. People are more overworked than ever.

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The Marq

MARCH 1, 2018

I've published the video speaking to why I've been away for so long and exposing the dark and nefarious actions of.THIS SITE! ;-) Enjoy the video.and if you want to contribute to the survey, this is it. Copyright(c) 2017 TheMarq.com.

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 5, 2016

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. This implies that the number of workers employed in alternative arrangements increased by 9.4 million (66.5%) from 14.2 million in February 2005 to 23.6 million in November 2015.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 22, 2015

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

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

This is even though a recent CNBC/SurveyMonkey small business survey shows the younger demographic tends to be more disenchanted with the government than older business owners. As politically charged as 2017 is, this mixing of business and beliefs is nothing new. What may be new is how individuals respond.

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 12, 2013

According to the 2013 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index (GMCI), a survey of 550 senior manufacturing executives from around the world, India currently ranks a surprising fourth in manufacturing competitiveness, behind only China, Germany and the U.S. That’s fourth with a bullet. Small businesses in the U.S.

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MARCH 24, 2017

estimates that 2017 will see the production of close to 3 million drones. Top 9 Fun and Exciting Video Business Ideas for Drone Owners. Gartner, Inc. By 2020, drone manufacture for personal and commercial purposes is projected to generate global market revenue in excess of $11.2

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