Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 16, 2021

    The Pew report has a lot more information and detail, including a section on how Americans in general view the gig economy and related policy issues.    See the report for more information and details.     

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The magazine Marie Claire was first published in 1937 and describes itself as "the site that women turn to for information on fashion, style, hairstyles, beauty, women's issues, careers, health, and relationships."   But what's a bit surprising is the extent they are covering it.  Freelancing With Benefits?

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 26, 2021

  This pulsing provides highly accurate tracking information, including motion and relative position, including height (z-axis).   The way it works is once UWB enabled objects are near each other, they start "ranging" - sending short pulses (two nanoseconds) back and forth between each object. 

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 7, 2019

  Making Ends Meet: The Role of Informal Work in Supplementing Americans’ Income looked at data from the Federal Reserve Board's Survey of Household Economics and Decision Making (SHED). The study found "28 percent of adults age 18 and older participated in informal work for pay during the survey reference month."

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

  According to Reddit, the forum is for: " those who want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work-free life, want more information on antiwork ideas and want personal help with their own jobs/work-related struggles."

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MAY 18, 2020

 The top three professions are consulting, coaching, and research (17 percent), creative services (16 percent) and information technology (13 percent). .  Independent professional service providers work in a variety of fields. The

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 4, 2018

The Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative and Cornell University's ILR School recently launched the Gig Economy Data Hub , which is a curated online repository of studies, data and information on independent work and the gig economy. We excited by the release of the Gig Economy Data Hub.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

See the report for more information and details on the study methodology.  .  Creators were identified through a series of survey questions about their independent work, digital content creation and monetization activities.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 17, 2021

  Regarding the streaming platform Spotify, a key finding from the article states: “Spotify's site informs us that just 13,400 artists (0.2 The Rolling Stone article The Rosy ‘Creator Economy’ Is Music’s Biggest Lie discusses the dramatic lack of revenue for many artists involved in the creator economy. 

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Our article The Metaverse is Coming provides more information on this topic. .   The high level of VC metaverse investments - coupled with the large investments being made by the big tech companies - means the metaverse will, in some form, continue to grow and likely become very, very big.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 19, 2019

As the study chart below shows, the top three professions for these skilled independent workers are consulting, coaching, and research (17 percent), creative services (17 percent), and information technology (12 percent). Information technology has grown, but not as fast as most would guess.   But a few patterns are clear. . 

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 15, 2020

Workers also report that certain activities, such as collaborating and staying informed about what others are working on, are harder to do at home, underscoring the value of physical presence." " The report chart below shows the top 3 reasons the respondents listed for going to the office.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

  See the article for more information.   .  This has greatly expanded the social commerce market.      Ark's article covers in more detail the reasons they expect social commerce to grow even more rapidly going forward.    

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Small Business Labs

MAY 13, 2019

Deloitte has become, in our opinion, one of the key go-to sources of information and analysis on the future of work. Their recent article Redefining work, workforces, and workplaces is a good example. "   As the article chart above shows (click to enlarge), they focus on three main areas: work, workforce and workplace.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 19, 2021

   But you should be interested because the economic and labor data collected by government agencies no longer provide the information we need to properly understand and manage the U.S. Sometimes we post articles on topics few people are interested in.    This is such an article.  

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 22, 2017

Barlow Research is a research firm that provides in-depth information on business customers to the banking industry.  They are an excellent information and insights on the small business sector of the economy. Small business owners tend to find business ownership fulfilling and want to continue.

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 7, 2019

.  They point out in their blog post announcing the service that temp workers currently struggle with rigid scheduling and a lack of information on what jobs are available and how much they pay. Staffing firms benefit from more placements and better information flow. They claim Uber Works will fix these problems. 

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JULY 14, 2020

  See that article for more information on this topic. .   BTW, Harvard Business Review's Gig Workers Are Here to Stay. It’s Time to Give Them Benefits nicely covers portable benefits. 

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 10, 2019

  While the Katz-Krueger study looked at primary jobs, another recently released study, Making Ends Meet: The Role of Informal Work in Supplementing Americans’ Income , took a broader view. This study found "28 percent of adults age 18 and older participated in informal work for pay during the survey reference month."

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 5, 2017

Mulcahy packages up the information from her MBA course in this book, and at only $16 ($11 if you buy the Kindle version), it's a a whole lot cheaper than taking her class at Babson.  We also think experienced and successful independent workers will find useful, new information in this book. 

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2018

But they do provide a lot of useful research summaries and information for free on their Staffing Stream blog. This provides them with an insiders view of the gig economy and cloud labor.    Much of their research, unfortunately, is behind their paywall. It's well worth reading. "  

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 12, 2019

" They also include a link to a more detailed description that contains other links to even more detailed information ( click here for the link to the deeper description of soft skills ). Yet recruiters are struggling to find these kinds of candidates." We probably wouldn't include some of the items that are on the list.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 28, 2016

Multibillion-dollar investments in robotics, 3-D printing, delivery drones, logistics technology, autonomous vehicles and low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites are giving rise to new products and services that sharply erode the cost of moving people, goods and information. As these technologies combine and converge, change will accelerate.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It's a great list and hard to argue these technologies won't have a big impact. But you could easily argue about when "one day soon" will be. By far the hardest part of technology forecasting is timing.    Identifying trends is pretty easy. 

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

.  It's a well researched, excellent overview of the coworking industry and it "examines the drivers of coworking from the demand and supply side, the industry risks and implications for corporate real estate, as well as information about the owners, coworkers and centers."

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 22, 2019

These are beyond the scope of this post, but if you're a writer you should visit The Make a Living Writing blog for this information. .  The article has a number of suggestions on how writers can increase their earnings.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 24, 2017

" The study also found control over where people work and the associated informal work flexibility also add to job satisfaction.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 20, 2018

According to Coworking Resources , a site that provides information for coworking space owners, 189 coworking spaces are opening around the world this month. As their chart below shows, over half of these openings are new, independent coworking spaces. The rest are expansions by independent operators (27%) or the large coworking chains (16%).

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 2, 2019

There's a lot of good information in the study. About 40% the respondents work for smaller businesses (those with less than 500 employees) and 60% work for larger firms, including 20% who work for firms with more than 10,000 employees. But the study chart below (click to enlarge) really jumped out at us.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

  Emsi , BTW, is an excellent source of information on all things related to labor markets. It's another field with excellent job prospects for grads.      We'll have more on the rising number of accounting students in the near future. 

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

adults (54%) have gone online to look for job information, 45% have applied for a job online, and job-seeking Americans are just as likely to have turned to the internet during their most recent employment search as to their personal or professional networks. And the information in this report is up to their usual high standards.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 9, 2018

Our clients leverage the insights and perspectives shared by our Advisors to stay informed and make better business decisions. Guidepoint, for example, describes what they do as:  Guidepoint connects clients with vetted subject matter experts—Advisors—from our global professional network.   This doesn't come cheap.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

.  Sessions include information for traditional exporters as well as how digitization and global ecommerce is creating the ability to easily and effectively enter overseas markets. Regular readers know we often refer to their Global Small Business blog and turn to them for information on small businesses going global.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 6, 2015

The webinar presentation ( click here for the slide s) is full of interesting information. Department of Labor (DOL) and various states to work together and share information to reduce worker misclassification and improve compliance with federal labor laws. But one slide really jumped out at me. The slide is below (click to enlarge).

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

These are formal or informal knitters clubs where members meet, knit, socialize and share knitting advice. Success on the Internet was propelled by real-life interactions. The in-person networking that was found to be most effective at encouraging entrepreneurship was membership in a Stitch n' B h group.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

the debates about the future of work will continue to be based in part on bad information. The reasons this is a big deal are: it means the BLS will again substantially under count the number of people working in the gig economy. the rise of side gigs, which has clearly happened, will continue to be discounted in policy circles.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 29, 2014

But its been very hard to quantify this information via surveys.   After multiple survey failures and a lot of testing, we've started to figure out how to ask follow-up survey questions that result in respondents revealing information on their side gigs. . This data is an example.

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