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Use of Contract Labor by Small Businesses Continues to Grow

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The IRS released their 2016 tax data on sole proprietors.     In 2016 about 25.5 billion on contract labor (freelancers, temps, etc.) in 2016, up from $34.4   This is an increase of 65% between 2010 and 2016.  billion on contract labor (freelancers, temps, etc.) billion in 2010.

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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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Corporations Hiring More Contingent Talent

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Ardent Partners has released its State of Contingent Workforce Management 2015-2016 report.   The tagline of the study is "the future of work is here" By this they mean contingent talent - freelancers, consultants, independent contractors, temps etc. - I got my copy at Guidant's website.

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Why Companies Are Increasing Their Use of Contingent Labor

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Ardent Partners is an analyst firm focused on corporate procurement and as part of this brief they research and analyze the use of contingent labor (temps, contractors, consultants, etc.) by corporations.

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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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