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JANUARY 7, 2020

For example, Business Insiders 'It feels cold and heartless': Hundreds of California freelancers have been fired before the holidays over a state law meant to help Uber and Lyft drivers covers a mix of freelancers who have lost work because of the new job. 

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MARCH 18, 2021

"  This means Uber's 70,000 UK drivers will get a minimum hourly wage, holiday pay, pensions and other benefits.  Supreme Court case,  Uber this week announced it would be classifying its U.K. drivers as "workers."   Unlike the U.S., " Despite this move by Uber, its U.K.

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JUNE 23, 2016

According to Small Biz Daily's Party Animals ; "7 percent of dog owners hold holiday or birthday parties for their dogs (that’s about 4 million people)—and 28 percent buy their dogs birthday gifts." Regular readers know we love pet trends here at Small Business Labs. According to their website, they provide.

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JANUARY 12, 2017

The year was chequered with holidays, wakes, and fairs; it was not one dull round of labor,” as the stocking-maker William Gardiner noted gaily at the time. Not only was the weekend a holiday, but they took Monday off too, celebrating it as a drunken “St. Indeed, some “seldom worked more than three days a week.” Monday.”.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

The holidays were quite hectic this year. But we were able to carve out some time and read  The Gig Economy: The Complete Guide to Getting Better Work, Taking More Time Off, and Financing the Life You Want.   And we're glad we did.

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DECEMBER 23, 2015

Happy Holidays! He was the first of many good-spirited servicemen and women to track Santa in action. Google also has a Santa Tracker this year. In addition to tracking Santa's progress on Christmas Eve, it has lots of fun activities. and we'll see you again next year.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The article has a great quote on pet humanization: Forty-five percent of owners buy birthday presents for their pets, and 64% buy them gifts on holidays. Fish are 3rd (11%), other comes in 4th (9%) and birds 5th (8%).

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JANUARY 22, 2014

 Key quote: "Retailers got only about half the holiday traffic in 2013 as they did just three years earlier, according to ShopperTrak, which uses a network of 60,000 shopper-counting devices to track visits at malls and large retailers across the country.

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

We're not referring to the holidays. It's that time of year again. It's trend forecast season, when everyone releases their top trends lists and predictions for the next year.    Gartner, the large technology analyst firm, has already released multiple 2017 trends lists. 

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

Called "CamperForce" , it's targeted at workampers who want work the 3-4 month Christmas holiday season at warehouses in Kentucky. The workamper trend is strong enough that Amazon even has a specific program for these people.

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MARCH 23, 2017

The most common reason cited by survey respondents for working in the gig economy is that it allows them to boost their income, with a third saying this is the case, with a quarter (25%) of gig economy workers reporting that their gig economy work enables them to achieve an end goal such as buying a car or going on holiday.

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MARCH 4, 2016

And forget about holidays. Not to mention chasing down unpaid invoices. Downtime on a Saturday very often becomes a brainstorming session about clients, projects, and finances. It can feel like Monday every day of the week. most often they feel like lost time. There's the responsibility. It's all on your shoulders.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

  The holiday season was even stronger, posting a 12% gain.  .  The report has too much information for a summary, but a couple of items jumped out at me: 1.    Ecommerce recovered from the Great Recession in 2010 and posted a 9% increase overall to $227.6   Facebook continues to take over the web. 

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NOVEMBER 27, 2010

.  Key quote from the article: "Grassroots networks like the American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA) and the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies have promoted local shopping around the holidays since the early 2000s. "We

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JANUARY 2, 2014

Chico and his parents visited us this holiday season. .   Because of these demographic forces, we expect the $60 billion U.S. pet industry to continue to outgrow the general economy over the next 5 years.   Regular readers will recognize Chico , my favorite humanized pet, in the picture. This, of course, hurt Chico's feelings.

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