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Bleisure Travel Continues to Increase

Small Business Labs

We first reported on bleisure travel , which is the the blending of business and leisure travel, back in 2015.    A According to the folks at the expense reporting and management firm, SAP Concur, it continues to gain popularity.  bleisure” trips increased by 20% from 2016 to 2017.

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More Americans Facing a Rent Burden

Small Business Labs

households rented their homes in 2016, which is about 9.3 Being rent burdened means having less money for other expenses or savings. Between 2001 and 2015 median U.S. In 2015 7 million of renter households were severely burdened, which is defined as spending more than half of their income on rent. Nearly 43 million U.S.

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The On-Demand Workforce Continues to Expand

Small Business Labs

  This is part of the findings of the recently released Intuit 2016 Dispatch From the New Economy: The On-Workforce study.  Forty-one percent say that a financial hardship – such as a job loss, medical problem, or unexpected major expense – impacted them during the prior year. The number is forecast to grow to 9.2

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This Digital Nomad Couple Sold Everything to Travel the World in a Sailboat—Here’s What They’ve Learned About Life, Goal Setting and Relationships

Success

They met on Tinder in 2015 while living in Sweden as expats: Ellison, an aviation sales director from Des Moines, Iowa, and Darsy, a human resources systems specialist from Paris. After several months of research, they attended a two-week sailing course in Gibraltar before selling Darsy’s apartment and buying Polar Seal in March 2016. “On

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Chance the Rapper on Achieving Goals as an Independent Artist & Paying It Forward

Success

In 2016, he co-created the Warmest Winter project, which created coats that doubled as sleeping bags for the homeless. Focusing on what he loves to find success It wasn’t just Chance’s own brand that landed him on the Forbes 30 Under 30: Music list in 2015 and the Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2017. Chance the Rapper never had a Plan B.

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My 2015 Year in Review (and How a Journal Made It Easy to Do)

Productivityist

As I write this, there are 37 hours left in 2015. This Friday (January 1) I’ll spend the majority of my day reading my journal entries from 2015. This Friday (January 1) I’ll spend the majority of my day reading my journal entries from 2015. It was so great that we decided we’re going to do it again in 2016.

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All work and some play: the rise of the ‘Bleisure’ travellers

Practically Perfect PA

While people were probably ‘bleisuring’ long before the advent of the awkward word amalgam, it has recently gained attention as a trend due to quantitative analysis carried out by several corporate travel companies (namely BridgeStreet® Global Hospitality and Carlson Wagonlit Travel’s 2016 white paper on the topic).

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