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.
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."
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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 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.
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. This is what do we call what continues to be commonly called the "sharing economy""? have nothing to do with sharing. We've long felt the term "sharing economy" was a misnomer.
Small Business Labs
DECEMBER 12, 2012
But even though I'm familiar with the labor situation in Europe, I was still stunned by the data in the New York Times article Young, Educated and Jobless in France. Instead, younger Europeans "float" from temp job to temp job. We spend a lot time studying jobs and workforce data. And, like U.S.
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. All of this adds up to situation like the one described in article - a women with a Ph.D
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