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Make Your Office Green and Clean for 2014

Eco-Office Gals

Paper wastage is to be avoided at all cost so make sure your team implement and remind each other of the simple changes they can make and if at all possible, go paperless in 2014. Green Office Week has raised awareness with thousands of businesses across the country since it was established in 2009. Green Your Business Guest Post'

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If You Were Dying… Would Gratitude Be Your First Thought?

Success

In 2009, a month after being told that her stage four pancreatic cancer had metastasized to the liver, limiting her lifespan to just weeks or even mere days, Joan Lewis felt well enough to cross off bucket-list items. This article was published in March 2014 and has been updated. Meanwhile, Joan Lewis’ days turned into weeks.

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The One Thing That May Lead to Better Hires

On The Job

Specifically, the authors of the study -- Sameer Srivastava of the University of California, Berkeley, and Govin Manian and Christopher Potts of Stanford University -- used linguistic analysis to look at more than 10 million internal emails sent from a technology company from 2009 to 2014.

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Why Companies Are Increasing Their Use of Contingent Labor

Small Business Labs

Key quote from the article: In 2009, the estimated percentage of contingent workforce utilization within the average enterprise hovered around 16% or 17%. The And according to their research report The State of Contingent Workforce Management 2014-2015 this growth is going to continue.

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Women, Seniors Leading Self-Employment Growth in UK & Canada

Small Business Labs

About 886,000 people who were self-employed in 2009 had left by 2014, compared with 1.3 million who were self-employed in 2004 leaving by 2009." Key quote from ONS report: "The rise in self-employment can be accounted for by fewer people leaving self-employment than in the past.

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Tracking the Digital Nomad Trend

Small Business Labs

As you can see from the chart below, the use of the term "digital nomad" started to gain traction in the 2008-2009 time frame. My guess is this term will have 3x or so the number of citations in 2015 than it did in 2014.    I'd say they pretty well nailed this trend a good decade or so before it got hot.

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The Rise of Micro Multinationals

Small Business Labs

This is up from about 30,000 in 2009.   According to data from the 2014 MBO Partners State of Independence report, 13% of full time independent workers - roughly 2.2 A study recently issued by eBay reports that in the last year 190,000 U.S. small businesses that use their platform export to multiple countries and continents.

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