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Deloitte on the Future of Work

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Deloitte has become, in our opinion, one of the key go-to sources of information and analysis on the future of work. Their recent article Redefining work, workforces, and workplaces is a good example. "   As the article chart above shows (click to enlarge), they focus on three main areas: work, workforce and workplace.

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Benefit Declines Makes Self-Employment More Attractive

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It's no surprise that companies continue to cut workplace benefits.  " The article goes on to list 21 workplace benefits that are going away, with reductions in retirement and health care benefits leading the way. We've found that corporate benefits tend to be overvalued in this analysis.  

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Labormetrics, Autonomy and Employee Tracking

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The growing use of labormetrics - a buzz word that's a play on sabermetrics , baseball's term for the use of statistics and empirical analysis - is interesting to us on two levels. First, it's clear labormetrics systems are going to be used in most businesses and across most tasks.  So which path is going to win?

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The State of Telework in the U.S.

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  In addition to insights and analysis, the report is full of interesting data. The key finding is surprisingly few people consider their home their primary workplace.    It describes who's teleworking and why they are teleworking.    Only 2.9 million employees (2.3%

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Should You Hire People With Graduate Degrees for Your Startup?

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  Because a key part of our job is data analysis, we don't get to be quite as uncluttered by facts as others.  .  It's obviously meant to be controversial and get others talking and writing about it (and in my case, it worked). We at Smallbizlabs are quite jealous of articles like this. 

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Lessons from a Failed Forecast

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  The qualitative analysis looks OK: " a futurist specializing in workplace issues, says pressure on baby boomers wanting to retire will be so great that they will be pulled back into the labor market. .  Overall I'd give them a B to B- on forecast accuracy. 

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