Small Business Labs
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
The NY Times article The Rise of Permanent Temp Economy provides an interesting look at the history of temporary work in America. The author argues the temp industry in America was created by exploiting gender stereotypes in the 1950s and 1960s. And I agree many temp jobs are bad. .
Small Business Labs
JULY 1, 2013
ProPublica's The Expendables: How the Temps Who Power Corporate Giants are Getting Crushed covers the dark side of temporary work. Key quote on the life of low paid temps: Many get by on minimum wage, renting rooms in rundown houses, eating dinners of beans and potatoes, and surviving on food banks and taxpayer-funded health care.
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Small Business Labs
MAY 16, 2012
Excellent article in the Harvard Business Review on The Rise of the SuperTemp. According to the article: "Supertemps are top managers and professionals—from lawyers to CFOs to consultants—who’ve been trained at top schools and companies and choose to pursue project-based careers independent of any major firm."
Small Business Labs
FEBRUARY 18, 2016
As the article points out, there's broad agreement that most of the sharing economy companies - Uber, Airbnb, etc. Unfortunately, we don't see this happening anytime soon. This is what do we call what continues to be commonly called the "sharing economy""? have nothing to do with sharing.
Small Business Labs
MAY 22, 2012
The PhD Now Comes with Food Stamps is an interesting article on the struggles of adjunct university faculty. According to the article, the average adjunct is paid $2500 per course taught, but it can be as low as $600. As freelancers they don't have job security or, in most cases, benefits.
Success
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
We have a whole generation of millennials and college grads who have come out of college seeing how their parents were perhaps treated in 2008 and are choosing income security over job security” by freelancing, temping and so forth. Weston couldn’t agree more. Extension classes abound at colleges and universities. Allen, Ph.D.,
Small Business Labs
JANUARY 7, 2016
Many in the industry also feel the threat posed by online talent marketplaces, freelancers management systems and independent contractors in general is minor or simply doesn't exist. The data overwhelmingly shows the use of non-W2 labor is growing at a much greater pace than overall employment or the growth in temp labor.
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