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The Rise of Highly Skilled UK Freelancers

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Exploring the rise of self-employment in the modern economy is a new report on self-employment in the UK.   It also focuses on what they refer to as "highly skilled freelancers" These are the self-employed working in managerial, professional and technical occupations. We will report our new finding in a few months.

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MBO Partners’ 8th Annual State of Independence Report

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MBO Partners released their 2018 State of Independence report this week. This is the 8th annual report in this series, making it the longest running look at independent work. This is especially true for what the report calls Reluctant Independents. Emergent Research (that's us) contributes to this study. million, up from 40.9

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The Expanding High Skill Gig Economy

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More and more professions that require advanced degrees or highly specialized skills are joining the gig and/or on-demand economy. Key quote: "Three-quarters of law firms with more than 250 lawyers use contract attorneys, says a 2016 report from legal consultancy Altman Weil." A good example is law. 

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Need for Agility and Skilled Talent Driving Growing Corporate Use of Contingent Workers

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Ardent Partners recently released their 2017-2018 State of the Contingent Workforce Management report. The report is targeted at procurement and HR professionals who manage contingent workforce programs at larger organizations. This Ardent Partners is an analyst firm focused on corporate procurement and supply chains.

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Coworking Members Learning New Skills, Becoming More Successful

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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. The learning generally comes two ways.  

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In Demand Job Skills

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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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Highly Skilled Self-Employed Driving the Growth of the Gig Economy

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By "privileged" they mean self-employed workers who are relatively highly skilled and well paid. They contrast this with what they call the "precarious" sector, which they define as the self-employed working in lower skilled, lower paying sectors.    The chart below show the growth of U.S.

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