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Coworking Doesn't Need a New Name, But the Office Space Industry Does

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Key quote from Joyce Bromberg, chief strategy officer at Convene: Everything that we know about landlords and how workplaces are designed, built, managed and staffed is being disrupted, necessitating a new name for what Bromberg predicts will become the way people work and how real estate will be consumed.

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Healthcare Industry Embracing the Gig Economy

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Key quote from the report: Driven by a surge in on-demand labor platforms and online work management solutions, traditional hierarchies are being replaced with open talent marketplaces, which four-fifths (80 percent) of health executives surveyed believe will drive profound shifts in their economics. . 

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The Staffing Industry Analyst's Human Cloud Framework and Taxonomy

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Last week the Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) released The Human Cloud, the Gig Economy & the Transformation of Work. In many cases (although not always), the platform also supports "the enactment and management" of the work (to a greater or lesser degree). It nicely covers the topics mentioned in the report title.

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Direct Selling Industry Employs More People Than the Online Gig Economy Platforms

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million are what the DSA calls "business builders" These are people actively managing and selling products to a customer base (think Avon, Mary Kay, etc.). This goes back to the early days of the direct selling industry in the late 1950's and early 60's. According to the Direct Selling Association (DSA), 20.5

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Is the Staffing Industry Facing a Kodak Moment?

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These are good times for the temporary staffing industry. As the American Staffing Association chart below shows, the industry has been booming since the steep declines caused by the Great Recession.    2015 was another record setting year and pretty much everyone in the staffing industry is predicting good times ahead.

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The Growing Role Small Businesses and Independent Workers Play in Corporate Ecosystems

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.  This includes well known marketplace firms like Uber, Etsy and Upwork as well as firms like Schwab, who has thousands of small and solopreneur wealth managers as part of their ecosystem.      The rise of ecosystem companies is one of the drivers behind the shift to barbell industry structures.  

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The State of the VC Industry - Fewer Firms, More Funding

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TrueBridge Capital Partners recently released a report on the State of the Venture Capital Industry. The large funds are able to do this because they are garnering a larger share of industry assets. The venture capital industry has been going through a lot of change over the past decade. A couple of charts jumped out at me.

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