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Forecast Lessons from Past Small Business Trends Lists

Small Business Labs

  The future doesn't change that often :  This is another way of saying the vast majority of trends take a long time to reach the mainstream.    The overall trend hasn't changed, but the forms, impacts and importance of mobile computing have changed - and will continue to change.   

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6 Ways to Alleviate Ergonomic-Related Strain

Ian's Messy Desk

Comment by Mean Dean on May 18, 2007 @ 1:32 am Those are good ergonomic tips for people working at computers. I got carpal tunnels syndrome/tendinitis in 2000 & 2001 because I didn’t have good ergonomic advice, & didn’t take any initiative back then to seek it out.

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Tim Rowe – Founder and CEO of CIC | Flexible Workspaces: Competing Globally

Allwork

And startups generally don’t have a long planning horizon. They don’t know if they’ll be around in a few weeks or months or years. So when we started in 1999, if you look at Google, the word coworking didn’t exist. It actually started showing up around, I think, 2006, 2007, somewhere like that.

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On the Job by Anita Bruzzese: Do Online Classes Make Sense for.

On The Job

Having just the opposite experience was Jan Melnick , who said she found her online classes from 2004 to 2007 were a perfect fit for her busy lifestyle as a businesswoman and mother of three. “It Showing up to class while running a business just wasn't an option for me that could work long-term for me. I was done with school.

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Could telecommuting be a career mistake?

On The Job

home as a consulting engineer for his employer in Provo, Utah, he was given 60-days notice in 2007 that he was going to be laid off. While a lot of people think telecommuting is the answer to all their problems, sometimes you have to be careful of what you wish for. Grossbart’s advice has come from personal experience. He kept his job.

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Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y?

On The Job

While I wouldn't wish a recession on anyone, I do believe that it's been a good thing for Gen Y. What he provided isn't a study, just his observations. It's important to remember that Generation Y wasn't the only generation living unrealistically the last decade or so. Bret, I interviewed Prof.

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