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Use of Contract Labor by Sole Proprietors Surging

Small Business Labs

  As the chart below shows, sole proprietor contract labor expenses increased 38% between 2010 and 2013.    Over the same period salary and wage expense increased only 10.7%. In 2013 contract labor was 36% of total labor costs, up from 31% in 2010 and just 20% in 2003

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Pauline Roussel CEO at Coworkies and Co-author of “Around The World in 250 Coworking Spaces” | Driving Collaboration: How Coworking Spaces Foster Connections in Work Communities

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And I think a lot of the people have misconception through the big brands that it started around 2010. And then there was another initiative in Vienna that started back in 2003. They were called shared spaces, collaborative workspaces. I’m thinking about Seabase, for instance, in Berlin, which was more of like a hacker space.

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Sugar Not The Icing On The Small Business Cake.

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Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Let me spell it out for anyone who really has not got the picture, businesses go bust because: The banks will not lend money to them; Even if they lend the money it is so expensive that it takes any profit out of the deal; They run out of savings.

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Not all accountants are created equal (how do you choose an.

The Small Business Blog

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. The Republic of Ireland looks like it has already started to make moves towards defining the term accountant with the establishment of the Irish Auditing and Accountancy Supervisory Authority in 2003. Build your own network! I can’t see it happening in the UK though!

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Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y?

On The Job

With their technology skills and great social networking abilities, GenY ( born roughly between 1980-2003) previously have found employers willing to meet their expectations. January 11, 2010 2:32 AM Anita said. January 11, 2010 1:05 PM Grant said. But then the recession hit and unemployment soared to more than 10 percent.

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