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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

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A similar McKinsey study in 2016 found that only 27% of working-age individuals in the U.S. We have a whole generation of millennials and college grads who have come out of college seeing how their parents were perhaps treated in 2008 and are choosing income security over job security” by freelancing, temping and so forth. Go, Em!”. “Go,

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Upwork's 2017 Freelancing in America Study

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million in 2016 to 32.8 million in 2016.   Justin Fox's article provides an excellent description of the cyclical forces: What's going on here is what happens at some point in every economic expansion, as a tightening labor market pulls contract workers, freelancers and temps into steady payroll jobs.

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