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The Staffing Industry Analysts on the Gig Economy and Cloud Labor

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The Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) recently released their U.S. But they do provide a lot of useful research summaries and information for free on their Staffing Stream blog. Gig Economy - 2018 Edition report. They found that about 48 million Americans are in the gig economy, which is 31% of the workforce. They also found about 13.7

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Staffing Industry Research Firm Says There are 44 Million Gig Workers

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The Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA)  recently released a study showing that nearly  30% of the U.S. Staffing Industry Analysts describes the latter as “human cloud workers.” online magazine and are fans of their Staffing Stream blog. workforce are gig workers. This works out to be about 44 million Americans.

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PWC's 2040 Industry Cluster Forecast

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Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc. Industry clusters are place where there is a concentration of companies and services related to a particular industry.  Web/Tech women work/life balance

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Disruption and the Analyst Industry

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Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc.     Low cost business models have disrupted a number of content industries, with music, newspapers and magazines getting hit very hard.    It costs $79 a year to subscribe.

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The Amazing Growth of the Pet Industry

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  The Mini Trends blog has a nice post on both pet trends and the "Petrepreneurs" who are building businesses related to pets.   First, the pet industry missed the Great Recession.    I can't think of many industries that had close to 20% revenue growth from 2007 to 2010. 

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Coworking Labs - Our New Research Blog for our Coworking Project

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Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc. Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « The Structural Shift to a Contingent Workforce | Main | What is Freelance Camp?   We will, of course, continue to post on coworking on this blog. . 

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Creative Professionals Pushing Back on California's New Gig Economy Law

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Key quote from the musician's Change.org anti-AB5 petition : AB5 will have a devastating and catastrophic impact on independent musicians, their livelihoods and the music industry in general in California.   Again from the musicians' petition: "We are, frankly, terrified of AB5 as it applies to us. . 

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