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DECEMBER 8, 2020

Supra's article  Reconciling the Gig Economy in California: Changes to Worker Classification Laws Since AB 5  nicely covers these.   So offering these types of benefits would lead to companies being forced to classify the workers as employees and would also expose them to very expensive legal actions.

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MARCH 18, 2021

Uber is applying the minimum wage requirement "after accepting a trip request and after expenses."    But as we pointed out in our article  A Third Way to Classify Workers Gains Momentum , we've changed our minds.  " Despite this move by Uber, its U.K. legal battles are not over.

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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). Key quote: The meritocratic class has mastered the old trick of consolidating wealth and passing privilege along at the expense of other people’s children. . 

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AUGUST 15, 2017

The New York Times article  Hot Spot for Tech Outsourcing: The United States looks at the outsourcing of software development tasks to lower cost U.S. cities are more expensive than outsourcing overseas, rising salaries and costs overseas is making outsourcing there less of a bargain. cities, mostly in the Midwest.

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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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MARCH 8, 2018

A study on ridesharing drivers -  The Economics of Ride-Hailing: Driver Revenue, Expenses and Taxes - was released last week by the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.   Our research 18 months ago on ridseharing driver earnings (net of expenses) found a $12-$14 per hour range for an average Uber/Lyft driver. 

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APRIL 1, 2020

  See our previous article on this topic for more details.    The loan can be used to pay for most business expenses.  .   So if you're an independent worker and you've lost business, you should consider applying for unemployment insurance from your state. 

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APRIL 23, 2018

It's one of the world's most expensive real estate markets and has some of the highest labor costs in the U.S.  Key quote from our article back then on this topic : Related to this, I've been in several corporate meetings lately where the topic was discussing moving offshore manufacturing back to the US. 

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The New York Times article  How to Retire in Your 30s With $1 Million in the Bank nicely covers the " growing movement of young professionals who are intently focused on quitting their jobs forever." Key article quote on the main drivers behind the movement: "Millennials especially have embraced this so-called FIRE movement.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Key quote from the Backchannel article  AFRICA’S DELIVERY DRONES ARE ZIPPING PAST THE US : Zipline’s rugged, fixed-wing drones have already made over 1,400 flights and delivered 2,600 units of blood, even during bad weather conditions involving heavy rain or wind in Rwanda.  Like pizza delivery. 

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

  They've also written an article - Shared Space: Coworking's Rising Star - summarizing their results.  It also Likely indicates traditional office space is more expensive. Yardi Matrix , a provider of real estate industry data and research, has released an interesting coworking study. 

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The key article quote is: Just how deep are our ties with our pets? consumers are sparing no expense when it comes to their “families.”. The article reports that 62% of Americans have a pet in their household, with Gen Xers (71%) and Millennials (65%) the two largest pet owning generations.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

According to the article, 50 percent of the overall population have dogs, and 35 percent have cats. They’re less expensive. This, BTW, means that a sizeable percentage of millennial men have both dogs and cats. It also means millennials are much more likely to be pet owners than older cohorts.

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JUNE 25, 2014

.   According to the Business Week article The Freelancers Union Wants to be Your HR Department  this move may "indicate that the freelance economy is maturing." " We agree.

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MARCH 21, 2016

Key quote from the Guardian article from a millennial who's very nervous: “I’m definitely scared, mostly because I’m paying so much for myself and for my student loans, so I can’t put that money into a nest egg,” she said. “How This quote points out one other trend of note - weddings have become way too big a deal and way too expensive.

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JANUARY 12, 2017

This comes from the Smithsonian's fascinating article  When Robots Take All of Our Jobs, Remember the Luddites.  Key quote from the article: They were well-off—their pay was three times that of stocking-makers. These Being a cropper was a really good job. They weren't happy: The workers were livid.

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MAY 3, 2016

  Several recent articles and studies help explain this. The Atlantic's The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans  is written by one of the 47% percent of all Americans who couldn't come up with $400 to cover an emergency expense without borrowing or selling something. This is not new news.

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JUNE 24, 2015

Key quote from a Fast Company article  on his plans: "The biggest problem that our students would always have at General Assembly is how do they find low-cost, flexible housing that has some of the same community values that we built," he says. "Many WeWork's not the only company interested in coliving. 

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MARCH 27, 2012

 A related Huffington Post article points out that high-end nannies in Europe are also hansomely rewarded. Coincidently, the Wall Street Journal has a review of a new book - The Most Expensive Game in Town - that chronicles the growth of highly paid youth sports coaches and programs.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

We noticed a really good comment with excellent advice on working in the gig economy in the Harvard Business Review article Who Wins in the Gig Economy, and Who Loses.  I love Obamacare, but it's become expensive where I live as insurers have left the market. 4) Health care is hard.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

By coincidence, the Wall Street Journal had  an article on the paperless office getting closer (registration required) a few days after the Lyft essay was released. The article references a well known forecast made in 1975 saying that paper would be all but nonexistent in business offices by 1990. 

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APRIL 25, 2016

  For example, Skift's article   Skift Survey: More Evidence of Uber Becoming a Rental Car Replacement  covers data showing that more consumers are turning to ridesharing services instead of renting cars. .    But the ridesharing industry is not just stopping there.

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APRIL 21, 2015

These startups need space and commercial offices are both hard to find and expensive in most of India's cities. Here are a couple of other articles on coworking in India: Tech in Asia on 6 Coworking Spaces in Mumbai. I'm just back from a trip to India where I had the opportunity to visit several coworking spaces. Coworking'

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MAY 22, 2013

  And GigaOm has an interesting article on the expensive and difficult need to cool quantum computers to near absolute zero. MIT's Technology Review reports both Lockheed Martin and Google likely paid in the $15 million range for their quantum computer.  The picture on the right shows part of the D-Wave cooling tower.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

.  Key quote: The multi-trillionfold decline in the cost of computing since the 1970s has created enormous incentives for employers to substitute increasingly cheap and capable computers for expensive labor. The good news is the article's authors see growing opportunities for a new class of middle class jobs.

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MAY 9, 2012

 This is primary due to the expensive fees VC firms charge.   For more details on the industries woes, see the report or this summary article in GigaOm.  Another interesting perspective is provided by this article on A list VC Fred Wilson.  This report will accelerate this shift.

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MARCH 5, 2015

Dental care in particular is expensive and hard to secure for the financially challenged. Our article The Lean Years describes this trend in more detail.  .  The most depressing parts of the book are on health care, or the lack of it for poor Americans.   Tirado blames herself and her choices for some of her problems.

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DECEMBER 17, 2015

Regardless of additional expenses (e.g., For examples, see our article Airbnb Creating Micro Hotel Chains  or Fox News' Boutique hotels now listing rooms on Airbnb to fill vacancies. household supplies, furniture), it was clear that Airbnb was a viable option to consider.  

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JUNE 25, 2013

 Key quote from the article: "We think of ourselves as an 'adhocracy', the opposite of a bureaucratic structure,” said Mr. Cameron. " These teams also drive their business model, which is based in part on keeping their overhead expenses low. No vanity services, no bureaucracy, no bloat, no waste.

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MAY 17, 2011

  Higher costs in China, more expensive supply chains and growing U.S.   As  a recent Wall Street Journal article points out , "Wages are rising in China, heralding the possible end of an era of cheap goods."  will see manufacturing boom.    The reasons? 

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AUGUST 30, 2011

" According to the CRM Magazine article, only 30% of small businesses have CRM systems in place.    Historically CRM systems were expensive to own and hard to maintain and use. “Anytime you talk about open-source CRM, Sugar comes up; they’re by far the best known and by far the largest,” Fauscette says."

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

.  GrowBiz Media , for example, writes articles on small business for corporations and government agencies.    In this case, we've written for, worked with, or been quoted in articles done by pretty much everyone listed - and yes, we've contributed to Amex'sOpen Forum.    . 

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

  The TechCrunch article points out that many of the sharing economy's firms require the availability of a low wage work force. Normally the Sharing Economy is fawned over in the media , who treat it like it's a radical new approach to capitalism that's going to save the world.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

They combine convenience, free Wi-Fi and expensive coffee in an easy to find and use package.   Metro Focus has an article on Boffices , which they define as Bar + Office.   Bars are even becoming touchdown spaces.  They have a long list of New York boffices.  My small, suburban town has a boffice.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Coworking Facilities | Main | Lessons from Turning Academic Research into a Business » September 17, 2010 3D Printing Comes Of Age The New York Times article 3-D Printing Spurs Is Spurring a Manufacturing Revolution covers the growing impact of this technology.    The NY Times article covers a number of examples. . 

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JUNE 23, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Street Food Gets Real | Main | Please Take "The Organizational Use of Video Storytelling" Survey » June 23, 2010 More on the Growth of Small Farms and Local Food Interesting article in the Washington Post on mobile slaughterhouses. 

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JULY 6, 2010

Manufacturing The New York Times article Is Manufacturing Coming Back to the U.S.? The article also points out that in addition to rising costs, there are also cash flow disadvantages associated with the use of Chinese manufacturers.    These are described in the NY Times article.  manufacturers. 

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