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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?   Conduct two surveys augmented by in-person interviews.

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The Decline of Employee Training & The Rise of Side Gigs

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The chart below, which shows a decline in employer-provided and on-the-job training in recent decades, has been making the rounds in the economic blogs. But out interviews from a decade ago shows a much smaller percentage of side giggers citing this reason.      This data is collected only occasionally by the U.S. . 

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More on the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) Movement, Independent Work and Edge Communities

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  In fact, in the interview below she says: “I hate it.   For example, according to the Mr Money Mustache (one of leading FIRE movement blogs) article What Everyone Gets Wrong About Fire , Financial Independence does  not  mean the end of your working career. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it.”.

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Seth Godin's Freelancer Course

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  According to an interview with Godin on the Gaping Void blog , here's reason he's done this course: This is the golden age for freelancers. The class is available on Udemy at a cost of $57. More opportunities, more tools, more leverage than ever before. But for many freelancers, there’s a big “but”….

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Major Shift in Thinking About Americans with Multiple Jobs

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We did that based on our interviews with independent workers.  We first wrote about this almost a decade ago (and we were by no means the first) and some of our first blog posts  --way back in 2007 -- are on these topics. Again, this is something the gig economy industry has been pointing to for years.

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The 9-5 Cure: Should You Become a Freelancer?

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" We often hear in interviews with freelancers that they consider their jobs more secure than if they had a traditional job.  Our anecdotal, interview-based evidence is about 1/3rd of freelancers love freelancing, about 1/3rd would rather work full-time for someone else and about 1/3rd aren't sure which is better.

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The Yin and Yang of Freelancing

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New Data Reveals Why Freelance Writers are Smart from the Make a Living Writing blog provides an excellent summary of the information contained in the 2013 MBO Partners State of Independence report. Another article on this topic is The "New Professionalism" from the oDesk blog. But I love it wholeheartedly.

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