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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

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In a survey published in 2020’s “ Building the On-Demand Workforce ” report from the Harvard Business School and Boston Consulting Group (BCG), 60% of business leaders said they expected to increasingly “rent” “borrow” or “share” talent with other companies. In 2020, more than a third of Americans freelanced — up 22% from 2019, CNBC reports.

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Hello Alice Co-founders Carolyn Rodz and Elizabeth Gore Are Fueling the Small Business Ecosystem

Success

During a conference in 2015, the future co-founders started talking about a mutual passion to address the problem of equity in the small business space. Like the fictional Alice, they’ve also experienced some “curiouser and curiouser” events in their founding journey.

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3D Printing Moving Past Prototyping to Large Batch Manufacturing

Small Business Labs

  They've created a network of 160 3D printers that is able to produce parts fast and cheap, at prices competitive with traditional injection molding in order quantities up to 10,000 pieces. BCG expects this market to triple by 2020. In particular, 3D printers have not been good at printing metal parts. 

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Merging Machines and Analytics with the Internet of Things

Small Business Labs

This is basically a new name for  The Internet of Things  (IoT), a term coined in the late 1990's and defined by Wikipedia as: the network of physical objects or "things" embedded with electronics, software, sensors and network connectivity, which enables these objects to collect and exchange data. 

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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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About this episode Do you desire to experience a thriving network of collaboration and connections within your community? Discover how coworking spaces can unlock opportunities for interaction and cooperation, leading to a vibrant and interconnected network that supports entrepreneurs and professionals in achieving their goals.

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Working from home can present particular challenges for women

Workplace Insight

Whilst remote working has its perks, networking and engaging within the office are essential to forming close relationships with mentors, bettering learning with heads up collaboration to spark off ideas, and opens doors to new opportunities. Catherine Mann isn’t alone in this school of thought.

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Meet the 2022 Women of Influence

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in 2020, with 37 women heading major firms.” Over the course of 100 days, Poler tasked herself with facing 100 fears—a project that culminated in a TEDx speech in 2015. After her 100-day experience and the subsequent building of a social movement, Poler published her first book, Hello, Fears , in 2020.

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