Small Business Labs

JULY 10, 2018

Bankrate recently released a survey showing that 37% of Americans have some sort of side job.    The survey was of adult Americans , of which there are about 250 million. This means the survey found about 92 million Americans have side hustles.  Most do it only a few times a month or less.

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JUNE 8, 2018

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) caused quite a stir yesterday with the release of their 2017 Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangement (CWS) survey results.    Specifically, the report shows that the share of U.S. There are other discrepancies that result in the CWS having lower numbers than most other surveys.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

SCORE , a nonprofit association that provides mentoring services to small businesses, released their fall Small Business Jobs report recently.  of businesses surveyed reported replacing employees (of any type) with contractors over the past six months. workers, including the owner. . 

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 14, 2018

Getting somewhat lost in the debates around the results from the BLS's 2017 Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangements survey (CWS) are several interesting findings about independent contractors.  Key findings for this segment include: 1. 79    2.  More

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 18, 2018

  The first report, A Primer on Independent Work , provides an excellent overview of the gig economy and independent work, including a comprehensive review of recent gig economy studies. As the study chart below shows (click to enlarge), Samaschool program grads report earning an average of $21 per hour working independently.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 23, 2017

The RideShare Guy released their  2017 Survey Results: Driver Earnings, Satisfaction and Demographics.  As the study chart below shows, 54% of the responding drivers said they were 51 or older and 24% report being older than 60. This is older than Uber or Lyft's own studies report, but not substantially so.

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JUNE 15, 2020

Work From Home Survey 2020 report. The survey was done between April 16th to May 4th and the respondents "were required to be working full time for a company of 100 or more people, to have worked in an office environment prior to COVID-19, and to be currently working from home." 

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AUGUST 3, 2021

the Tilt , a content marketing site, recently released The Unconventionals , a survey and study of online content entrepreneurs. " The survey respondents split almost evenly between full-time content creators (52%) and part-time content creators (48%).  Others are powering high-growth content ventures that employ many."

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 15, 2021

American Express recently released its annual Global Travel Trends report.     Key quote from the report: " 54% of respondents (U.S.)   And survey questions about becoming a digital nomad are a good example.     And survey questions about becoming a digital nomad are a good example.  

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 17, 2015

Kudos to Wasp Barcode Technologies for their excellent Small Business Accounting report. It contains survey results from companies with 11-100 employees on issues related to their accounting and finance functions. 70% of small businesses outsource tax preparation, and 30% outsource tax planning.

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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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DECEMBER 16, 2021

think tank, recently released The State of Gig Work in 2021 report.      The report covers the results of an in-depth survey of Americans who earn money from the gig economy, which Pew defined somewhat narrowly.    Only 17% report a negative experience.   

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APRIL 27, 2021

  Also, 76% of the respondents reported their financial situation has negatively impacted their mental health. .     Also, 76% of the respondents reported their financial situation has negatively impacted their mental health. The Vogue chart (click to enlarge) below shows the impact by issue.

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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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Small Business Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

Their article Five Truths about International Business in the Middle Market covers survey research on the exporting and importing by U.S. What's so interesting to us is microbusinesses report fewer challenges than midmarket firms do.   firms with between $10 million and $500 million in sales (midmarket companies).

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Small Business Labs

MAY 10, 2011

You many have noticed that different surveys show very different small business social media usage rates. For example, the Wall Street Journal article Facebook Tops for Small Business reported on a survey that found small businesses quite positive about social media. 

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 22, 2019

Several recent surveys focused on the pay rates on income of independent and freelance writers. The Authors Guild’s 2018 Author Income Survey collected pay data from over 5,000 published book authors.   They report this is a 42% decline in authors earnings over the past decade.   But again there is good news.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Almost 4 in 10 (38%) said it's hard to be successful and a third of content creators (34%) report struggling with burnout.     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

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Marketplace and Edison research recently released Americans and the Gig Economy, a survey of gig workers.    The survey covered a lot of ground, including finding about 24% of American 18 and older are gig workers.   The survey also asked a series of questions about economic anxiety.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 28, 2019

" As part of the study BCG surveyed 11,000 workers in 11 countries: the US, the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Japan, India, Indonesia, China, and Brazil. BCG took a different approach to their survey than others have. The report also identifies 4 tribes of new freelancers. But for the U.S.

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 23, 2019

The Federal Reserve recently released its 2019 Small Business Credit Survey.  According to the report, they were right. We'll have more on this report in the near future.   A key finding is the use of online lending sources by small businesses is rapidly expanding.  This is up from just 19% in 2016.

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 25, 2018

After posting on corporations looking to increase their agility on Tuesday, we found two new reports on business agility in our mailbox on Wednesday. Gallup pointed us to their report The Real Future of Work: The Agility Issue.   According to this report everyone agrees agility is important. As noted by the survey results.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 24, 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?    As part of this research, SNCR is doing a survey on this topic.

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MARCH 3, 2020

  It's based on extensive surveys and interviews across 33 countries and updates similar efforts conducted in 2013 and 2016.    The study covers a lot of ground (the study report is 120 pages long) and identifies 12 key trends that Ipsos believes will dominate the world in the 2020s. 

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Small Business Labs

JULY 11, 2017

As part of this study, 6,427 providers who find independent work on twelve on-demand economy platforms were surveyed. And 91 percent of those surveyed said they like controlling when, where and how they work. The study report is here. These are among the key findings of the Intuit On-Demand Workforce study.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 5, 2016

We were very surprised by the results from  a recent survey  on contingent work done by a group consisting of the Aspen Institute’s Future of Work Initiative, the Markle Foundation, Burson-Marsteller and TIME Magazine. Time Magazine has more detail in their article on the survey.

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AT&T 172

Small Business Labs

AUGUST 14, 2017

Federal Reserve released the their Report on Startup Firms. This is the second in a series of reports based on their 2016 small business credit survey.    There's a lot of interesting data in the report. But one set of data really jumped out at us.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 17, 2018

Some of the key survey findings from our coworking space member research show that: 87% of respondents report that they meet other members for social reasons, with 54% saying they socialize with other members after work and/or on weekends. 83% report that they are less lonely since joining a coworking space.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 15, 2018

The report chart above (click to enlarge) illustrates this and shows that the companies surveyed are spending about the same amount on external service providers and external independent workers. While this is not new news for regular readers, the report has more details and is well worth reading.

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 12, 2018

Rowe Price study  Financial Attitudes & Behaviors Toward the Gig Economy found that "participation in the gig economy makes workers more financially accountable"   As the study chart below shows (click to enlarge), 78% of the surveyed gig workers said they are more involved in their finances due to gig work.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 23, 2021

   But surveys and studies have pretty much universally shown that most independent workers (self-employed, independent contractors, freelancers, etc.) - including most rideshare drivers - are satisfied with gig work and prefer being gig workers instead of traditional employees. . 

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 20, 2019

  As a follow-up, the chart below (click to enlarge) is from the Freshbooks 2019 Self-Employment in America Report. The main reason, as found out in the survey, was control over career. Our article yesterday covered a study showing how work autonomy and control resulted in mental health benefits for the self-employed. 

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 13, 2018

NPR's recent Marketplace-Edison Research poll data (below) shows that gig workers "report significantly higher economic anxiety than regular full-time workers." We've long reported on what we call the "yin and yang" of independent work.     NPR-Edison’s survey also found the yin and yang. 

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 30, 2018

The Conference Board recently released survey results that found "51 percent of U.S. " This is quite a bit lower than the level reported by independent workers in the 2018 MBO Partners State of Independence study. It found 72% of independent workers report being satisfied.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 10, 2020

"Armchair digital nomads" is the term we use to describe the millions of Americans who aren’t currently digital nomads but tell us in surveys they plan on becoming one.   We will report our findings in the fall. and firms providing "living as a service" offerings that make multiple month stays easier.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 29, 2020

The NLC survey shows that 74% of cities have started to cut their budgets, with 20% reporting across-the-board reductions. .  Examples include advertising agencies and marketing firms, professional services providers and cities, which rely in part on sales tax and consumer use fees for much of their budgets. Also, about 1.5

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 11, 2017

According to a recent survey by the global HR services company Randstad, "More than half of global human capital leaders expect to transfer one-third of their permanent positions to contingent roles in the near future." " More than 700 global human capital leaders responded to the Randstad survey. 

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