Small Business Labs

JANUARY 28, 2019

They designed their survey to exclude highly educated workers—those with bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, and above—and to include a large share of people with lower incomes.  The report also identifies 4 tribes of new freelancers. BCG took a different approach to their survey than others have. But for the U.S.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 13, 2021

The first is that digital nomads, who are well educated and digitally savvy, tend to work in professions where talent shortages are common and attracting and retaining employees is a constant challenge.  million workers report being digital nomads.  " As the digital nomad study chart below shows (click to enlarge), 10.9

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The 2019 edition of one of our favorite trend reports - JWT Intelligence's annual forecast of 100 trends to watch in the coming year - is out.  It’s about what I, as a guest, am getting out of this from an educational point of view and an emotive point of view.”. It’s now about the experience. It’s about the destination.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 23, 2019

Simply put, workers up and down the income ladder are finding that their compensation simply doesn’t keep up with rising costs, especially of education, health care, and housing.  Occasional independents are are workers who report working independently occasionally or sporadically, but at least once a month on average. 

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Small Business Labs

MAY 19, 2015

One of the more interesting findings from our recent survey of coworking members is how many reported they had learned new skills - or improved their existing skills - due to their coworking space membership: 69% of the respondents reported they learned new skills. 68% of the respondents reported they improved their existing skill set.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 7, 2018

  Economic growth has led to a jobs recovery for even the hardest hit segment of workers, those with less than a high school education. This is especially true for lower earning, less educated independent workers who, on average, are less satisfied with independent work than higher earning independents.

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 2, 2019

.  The data comes from EMSI's Talent Attraction Scorecard , which looks at six metrics by county: job growth, skilled job growth, net migration, annual openings for skilled workers (per capita), educational attainment growth (based on adults with associate degrees and above), and a broad measure of regional competitiveness.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 24, 2017

The Georgetown Center on Education the Workforce has started a project on "good jobs" , with a focus on good jobs that don't require a university degree.    According to their first report, there are 30 million American workers without a college degree who have a good job.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 28, 2013

Job Growth and Education Requirements is a comprehensive new report from the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce that projects job growth by industry and occupation to 2020. The report covers a lot of ground, including detailed job forecasts by state.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 14, 2019

.  But as the article chart below shows, ride sharing use is common across most age, income and educational cohorts. adult population today uses ride-hailing apps on a weekly basis – a share that is largely unchanged from 2015, when 3% of Americans reported being weekly riders." Key quote: " a mere 4% of the U.S.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 11, 2015

The key quote from the report is: 64% of American adults now own a smartphone of some kind, up from 35% in the spring of 2011. Smartphone ownership is especially high among younger Americans, as well as those with relatively high income and education levels.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 13, 2017

Recent research by future of work expert Lynda Gratton  suggests due to longer life spans the traditional life stages - education, work and retirement - no longer work. More interesting is 1/3rd of the people aged 55+ working in the ODE report being retired.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 31, 2016

A good example is the coverage of Pew Internet's Shared, Collaborative and On Demand: The New Digital Economy report. Despite the impressive numbers, the press has been reporting that the Pew survey found few Americans are participating in the on-demand economy. Most of the media is not positive about the on-demand economy.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 9, 2013

The BLS recently released a report showing that the college education gap between women and men continues to widen.  According to the report, by age 25 30 percent of women and just 22 percent of men had received a bachelor’s degree. The relative under performance by men in educational settings is well established.

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 3, 2014

It promotes its members and their products through media and marketing support, public education, promotional events and retail sales. The full report can be accessed here.   The report chart below shows how the members of Portland Made self-identify. New Artisans Small Business Economy trends'

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 17, 2017

  London's Edspace targets firms and individuals working in education. The growth of niche spaces is one reason we felt coworking had hit a growth inflection point in 2011 and why we reported it had entered the mainstream in 2016. Manchester’s Orega has a membership mostly come from the media world.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 4, 2015

.  The New York Time's article We're Making it Too Hard for Millennials points out: "The most educated generation in history is on track to becoming less prosperous, at least financially, than its predecessors." " In addition to earning less, many millennials are burdened with school related debt. ."

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UPS 100

Small Business Labs

JUNE 21, 2012

A Portrait of Part-Time Faculty Members is a report on the duties and pay of adjunct university faculty. According to the report, there are about 1.8   The report covers the result of a survey of academic freelancers (the adjuncts). 2 out 3 report a personal annual income of $45,000 or less. .

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Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

According to The Just-In-Time Professor , a report by U.S.  institutions of higher education" Despite  covering college and university freelance faculty in the past  (they're called adjunct faculty), we were a surprised by how large this number is. The report is none too positive about this shift.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 13, 2017

MBO Partners released their 2017 State of Independence report today. million full time Independents reported making more than $100,000 annually, up 4.9   See the report for more details.  In 2017, the total number of independent workers (self-employed, freelancers, independent contractors, etc.) million, up 2.8

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Small Business Labs

JULY 8, 2013

If you want to be depressed about the state of education and opportunity equality in the U.S.,   The chart below, from the report, pretty nicely sums this issue up. take a look at the Hamilton Project's recent study on the lack of low income students attending elite U.S.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 24, 2016

As we reported last week, record numbers of Americans are working past 65.   The article focuses on a retired educator who has put together a portfolio of activities to meet his goal of “balancing a life of leisure with a life of purpose.”.

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

As the study chart below (click to enlarge) from the MBO Partners 2021 State of Independence report shows, the two youngest generations - Gen Z (born 1997-2012) and Millennials (born 1980-1996) - make up the majority of independent workers (freelancers, self-employed, gig workers, etc.). 2021 is the first year when this is the case.  

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The press mostly reports on bad things, so I was really happy to read the BBC's  Hans Rosling: How Much Do You Know About the World. It's all thanks to a powerful combination of female education, access to contraceptives and abortion, and increased child survival. Girls are Getting Better Education.

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UPS 100

Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

According to recent government data and reported by Pew Research , women aged 25-34 are nearing wage parity with men of the same age. First, younger women are out performing younger men at every level of education - and especially in college. We expect the wage gap to continue to close for two key reasons.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 21, 2016

In 2014 we reported on a Pew study showing only 44% of Americans consider themselves middle class, down from 53% in 2008. But the quick summary is stagnant wages, increasing costs for housing, healthcare and education and the hollowing out of middle wage jobs.  So it's not just millennials.

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Reports and Resources Intuit 2020 Research Report Todays Hobbyists are Tomorrows Hobbypreneurs Homepreneurs: A Vital Economic Force Research Brief - Small Business Credit Outlook The Economic Stimulus Package: Whats in it for Growing Businesses? Carolyn is leading the coworking study and Steve is a member of the project team.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

  Key quote on what job polarization means: Demand for highly educated workers who excel in abstract tasks is robust, but the middle of the labor market, where the routine task-intensive jobs lie, is sagging.  For more on this topic, see our Artisan Economy category or the 2008 research report The New Artisan Economy.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 21, 2015

This data is somewhat confirmed by a report from Deutsche Bank showing that almost half of all Americans don't save anything from their current income. Medical, education and housing costs were also much lower. This The chart below, from a Business Insider story on the study , nicely illustrates this.

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Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

 Educators and employers will have to deal with the sociological problems men are experiencing. We've been following and reporting on the End of Men  and the Rise of Women  trends for several years.   When we first started covering these trends the feedback wasn't positive.

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UPS 100

Small Business Labs

MAY 27, 2010

Reports and Resources Intuit 2020 Research Report Todays Hobbyists are Tomorrows Hobbypreneurs Homepreneurs: A Vital Economic Force Research Brief - Small Business Credit Outlook The Economic Stimulus Package: Whats in it for Growing Businesses? Carolyn is leading the coworking study and Steve is a member of the project team.

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 21, 2015

Freelancer.com, one of the world’s largest freelance hubs, reported that even back in 2012 more than one-third of their 3 million users were Indians. There's also a rapidly growing startup community in India. These startups need space and commercial offices are both hard to find and expensive in most of India's cities.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 15, 2012

Useful data for parents trying to show the value of a college education to their kids.  Data on this is hard to come by, but the report cites a study saying close to 40% of young college grads are in jobs that don't require a college degree. . For college grads under 25 the unemployment rate is 9.4%.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Reports and Resources Intuit 2020 Research Report Todays Hobbyists are Tomorrows Hobbypreneurs Homepreneurs: A Vital Economic Force Research Brief - Small Business Credit Outlook The Economic Stimulus Package: Whats in it for Growing Businesses? Carolyn is leading the coworking study and Steve is a member of the project team.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

Reports and Resources Intuit 2020 Research Report Todays Hobbyists are Tomorrows Hobbypreneurs Homepreneurs: A Vital Economic Force Research Brief - Small Business Credit Outlook The Economic Stimulus Package: Whats in it for Growing Businesses? Carolyn is leading the coworking study and Steve is a member of the project team.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 17, 2010

Reports and Resources Intuit 2020 Research Report Todays Hobbyists are Tomorrows Hobbypreneurs Homepreneurs: A Vital Economic Force Research Brief - Small Business Credit Outlook The Economic Stimulus Package: Whats in it for Growing Businesses? Carolyn is leading the coworking study and Steve is a member of the project team.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 4, 2010

Reports and Resources Intuit 2020 Research Report Todays Hobbyists are Tomorrows Hobbypreneurs Homepreneurs: A Vital Economic Force Research Brief - Small Business Credit Outlook The Economic Stimulus Package: Whats in it for Growing Businesses? Carolyn is leading the coworking study and Steve is a member of the project team.

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