Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

By comparison, just 18 percent of all Americans in a recent U.S. On-Demand Work Fills Near-Term Financial Needs: Sixty-six percent of people working on-demand report having variable monthly income. Federal Reserve survey reported encountering a financial emergency.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 12, 2013

While the overall report was quite good (at least by comparison to those of the last few years), a big chunk of the increase was in part-time work. As the chart below from the NY Times shows, their numbers have grown 3.4 million since the beginning of the recession.      February's job report continues this trend.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 20, 2011

.  Key quote: "As a new book, History's Worst Predictions, by Eric Chaline, shows, everyone from ancient prophets to modern futurologists have, more often than not, got the future spectacularly wrong."  

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Small Business Labs

JULY 26, 2016

If anything, this comparison understates the higher satisfaction rate of independent workers due to the way we adjusted our numbers down to better match the approach The Conference Board uses. 

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Small Business Labs

MAY 7, 2013

  By way of comparison, overall about 10% of the U.S. It shows how self-employment increases with age, peaking with over a quarter of workforce participants 65 and older being self-employed. This works out to about 1.9 million 65+ self-employed workforce participants. workforce is self-employed. are 65 or older.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 20, 2019

Due to layoffs, company failures, changes in corporate directions and a broader lack of corporate loyalty to their employees, they feel traditional jobs aren't secure and by comparison independent work is more secure. The strong economy has made is easier to be a successful independent worker.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 1, 2017

Again from the article: the processing power of four smart consultants with excel spreadsheets is miniscule in comparison to a single smart computer using AI running for an hour, based on continuous, non-stop machine learning. This is true, but doesn't have us worried about our jobs - at least not yet.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 23, 2015

They are used to instant access to price comparisons, product information and peer reviews. They have been slower to marry and move out on their own, and have shown different attitudes to ownership that have helped spawn what’s being called a “sharing economy.”.

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