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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Key quote from Bloomberg's When You Can’t Work From Barcelona, Boulder Might Do , which covers the study: " there is a massive and growing reserve army of digital-nomad wannabes — people who tell the survey-takers they’re planning on going nomadic in the next two or three years, or at least thinking about it."

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MAY 31, 2016

Despite the impressive numbers, the press has been reporting that the Pew survey found few Americans are participating in the on-demand economy. s Taxi Industry  is one of many articles chronicling how much share ridesharing companies have taken from taxis.   Fortune's Uber and Lyft Have Absolutely Gutted L.A.’s

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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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JULY 26, 2021

The New York Times article More phone calls, less shopping: how the pandemic changed American lives, down to the minute examines data from the American Time Use survey to show the changes in how Americans spent their time last year.     This is likely an example of people not telling the truth on surveys. 

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MARCH 15, 2021

.   As we pointed out in our article The Wannabe Digital Nomads , most people saying they're interested in becoming a digital nomad won't do it.     And survey questions about becoming a digital nomad are a good example.  

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MAY 17, 2021

Over the past week, there's been a flurry of articles and social media posts on "geriatric millennials" This term refers to the oldest millennials, those born between 1980 and 1985.      One of the more popular articles is Today's Are you a 'geriatric millennial'?   

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APRIL 20, 2021

The Washington Post's recent article T he hybrid office is here to stay. " The reason hybrid work is winning is surveys consistently show most workers and their bosses think hybrid is the best way to go. .  The Washington Post article's title mentions that this shift will be disruptive. 

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JUNE 17, 2011

I wasn't familiar with InboxQ until I saw a reference to a survey they'd done in Entrepreneur's Why Savvy Businesses Field Customer Questions on Twitter.  " Because of our blog, we get sent a lot of surveys to review.    To be honest, most are poorly done.    InboxQ&A did not do this. 

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MARCH 8, 2021

Their article Five Truths about International Business in the Middle Market covers survey research on the exporting and importing by U.S. As we pointed out in a previous article , about 28% of microbusinesses - firms with fewer than 4 employees including the owner  - conduct business internationally.  

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APRIL 27, 2021

The article also cited other problems that fashion freelancers face. The article explains why: Giulia Mensitieri is an anthropologist and author of  The Most Beautiful Job in the World , which exposed a culture of exploitation across the industry. So one may ask, why do they do it?

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MAY 26, 2020

Lots of work from home (WFH) surveys have been conducted over the past month.  For example, the Global Workplace Analytics Work from Home Experience Survey found that "U.S. " And as the Harris/Zapier survey chart below shows (click to enlarge), 66% of the respondents prefer working at the office.  

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MAY 10, 2011

You many have noticed that different surveys show very different small business social media usage rates. For example, the Wall Street Journal article Facebook Tops for Small Business reported on a survey that found small businesses quite positive about social media. 

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

According to a survey by the HR consulting firm Mercer , 73% of the firms surveyed plan to implement a hybrid work environment that includes both in-office and remote work. And a Gartner study found that 82% of executives surveyed plan on allowing employees to work remotely at least some of the time. 

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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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AUGUST 5, 2021

The article quote we found most interesting is (the bolding is ours) : "The companies also insist that reclassification would rob the workers of flexibility, an argument Lyft made in an email to drivers in Massachusetts on Tuesday morning reviewed by The Hill. The Hill's Gig firms seek Mass.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

There's lots of articles these days covering how to become an full or part-time independent worker (freelancer, independent contractor, gig worker. The reasons we like it so much is the article's 8 insights for freelancers are all things we regularly hear in our interviews and survey research. It helps to find a niche.

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AUGUST 20, 2019

Our article yesterday covered a study showing how work autonomy and control resulted in mental health benefits for the self-employed.  The main reason, as found out in the survey, was control over career.   As a follow-up, the chart below (click to enlarge) is from the Freshbooks 2019 Self-Employment in America Report.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Chamber of Commerce article The K-Shaped Recovery and the Cost of Inaction.  " The Chamber article illustrates this by pointing out that "the financial services sector, for example, has already recovered 94% of its pre-pandemic employment. According to an NPR survey and covered in their article Nearly Half Of U.S.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance recently released its 2019 Independent Business Survey. Key quote from their article on the study : Many public policy decisions in recent years have fueled market concentration and favored their big competitors.   They also feel government policies have not helped.  

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AUGUST 28, 2018

A recent survey by LinkedIn found that 70% of U.S. Key quote from their article on the study : " more than half (52%) of small business hiring managers say that the number of freelancers and contractors in their company will increase in the next 5 years while 38% say the number will stay the same."

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APRIL 2, 2019

The study is based on a survey of 2,675 adult Americans with a full-time job at companies with at least two employees. It shows that 52% of the full-time employees surveyed said they plan to postpone their retirement due to their financial situation. The reason is the people who took this survey all have full-time traditional jobs.

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APRIL 29, 2019

Deloitte's article The alternative workforce: It's now mainstream is taken from their 2019 Human Capital Trends report. " The data in the article comes from Deloitte's annual global business survey. " The data in the article comes from Deloitte's annual global business survey.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

They also found their survey questions "did not work as intended" and resulted in a large number of false positives. The false positive problem – meaning people say they do something in response to a survey question when they don’t – is a common problem with gig surveys for two broad reasons. This works out to about 1.6

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JULY 5, 2016

We were very surprised by the results from  a recent survey  on contingent work done by a group consisting of the Aspen Institute’s Future of Work Initiative, the Markle Foundation, Burson-Marsteller and TIME Magazine. Time Magazine has more detail in their article on the survey.  

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MARCH 8, 2018

  But our data - like the data used in the MIT study - was based on survey questions asking rideshare drivers what they estimate their hourly gross earnings to be. It's well known that people often misstate their earnings (intentionally and unintentionally) on surveys, which makes this data imprecise at best. 

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APRIL 11, 2019

  According to The Infinite Dial 2019 , an annual survey conducted by Edison Research and Triton Digital, more than half of all adult Americans have listened to one. But as the TechCrunch article Y Combinator Bets on the Booming Podcast Industry points out, revenues are expected to rapidly increase. 

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MARCH 22, 2018

  Our surveys show that 21% of on-demand gig workers - those that get work through online marketplace such as Uber, Upwork and Task Rabbit - reported they participated in this type of work to help them get through a financial hardship or shock.   So a simple break down could lead to major financial problems for many Americans.

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JULY 26, 2018

Bloomberg's Inside Google's Shadow Workforce covers the use by Google of what they call TVCs, or “temps, vendors and contractors" According to the article about half of Google's workforce is comprised of TVCs.    We've recently covered a number of studies confirming this. . 

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MARCH 13, 2018

   NPR-Edison’s survey also found the yin and yang.    Key quote on the positives of gig work from their article  What Makes Gig Worker Anxious : "Our survey finds that gig workers highly value setting their own schedule and being their own boss."

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JANUARY 17, 2018

Our recent Harvard Business Review article, Coworking Is not About Workspace - It's About Feeling Less Lonely , covers research we conducted on the social side of coworking. 79% said coworking has expanded their social networks. 83% report that they are less lonely since joining a coworking space.

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JULY 2, 2015

  The article also points out: To some extent, the study’s findings are to be expected. The majority of those surveyed say that, for a variety of reasons, they voluntarily chose the independent work life over more traditional gigs.   Survivor bias is a common survey problem. in the U.S.

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JANUARY 10, 2019

The Mother Jones article The Gig Economy is a Big Nothingburger is an excellent example of the response to a new paper - Understanding Trends in Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States - from the economists Lawrence Katz and Alan Krueger. " This equates to roughly 70 million Americans.

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AUGUST 16, 2018

        Rural America rising: why professionals are moving to the countryside , an article on the study, provides a good explanation of why people are moving to small towns: Surveying Minnesota realtors and the new arrivals themselves. .  The chart below shows the key findings from the study.

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AUGUST 30, 2018

The Conference Board recently released survey results that found "51 percent of U.S. The MBO Partners survey asked: "Please rate your overall satisfaction with being an independent worker." Key quote from the Wall Street Journal article on the study,  U.S. employees feel overall satisfied with their job."

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JUNE 22, 2017

article What Do Millennials Want From Their Employers, Exactly? The study the article refers to is Deloitte's 2017 Millennial Survey. This Study Sums It Up in 1 Sentence says Millennials want: "Freelance flexibility with full-time stability" This is, of course, not just what Millennials want.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The quick answer is the non-employer data comes from IRS data, while self-employment data comes from the BLS's monthly current population survey.   See this article for more details.  This means the two data sets aren't really comparable.    We started tracking the non-employer data back in 2006.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

adults say they have ever used a ride-hailing service such as Uber or Lyft, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in fall 2018.   But as the article chart below shows, ride sharing use is common across most age, income and educational cohorts. Today, 36% of U.S.

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