As the chart below (click to enlarge) shows, we’re forecasting that the number of global coworking spaces will grow from 14,411 in 2017 to just over 30,000 in 2022. million in 2022. We recently released our new coworking forecast for 2018-2022.  MORE

Leaders hope to boost manufacturing’s share of GDP from 16 percent in 2009 to 25 percent by 2022, over the same period adding 100 million jobs in the manufacturing sector. China for more than a decade has been the world’s go-to country for manufactured goods. MORE

The industry is also growing rapidly, with industry revenues expected to exceed $1 billion by 2022.  MORE

spaces over the forecast period (2017 to 2022) is, by coworking's standards, a relatively modest 9%.  Our U.S. coworking forecast projects continued growth for the U.S. coworking industry over the next 5 years.    Our forecast average annual growth rate for U.S. MORE

By 2022, IoT will save consumers and businesses $1 trillion a year in maintenance, services and consumables. It's that time of year again. We're not referring to the holidays. MORE

  According to the article: "The world will, for the first time in history, move from being mostly poor to mostly middle-class by 2022, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development projects." The Christian Science Monitor's Surging BRIC middle classes are eclipsing global poverty  does a great job describing the surging number of people entering the middle class around the world.  MORE

The recently released their 2022 employment projections and U.S. annual rate over the decade from 2012 to 2022. The Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) is a research and industry analyst firm that focuses on contingent work. Their clients are staffing industry firms and corporations that employ contingent and/or temporary workers. staffing industry forecast.  The full report is only available to their clients, but they publicly released their high level forecast numbers. MORE

million in 2022. MBO Partners released their 2017 State of Independence report today. In 2017, the total number of independent workers (self-employed, freelancers, independent contractors, etc.) in American rose to 40.9 million, up 2.8 percent from 2016. MORE

  As the chart below (click to enlarge) shows, we’re forecasting that the number of global coworking spaces will grow from 14,411 in 2017 to just over 30,000 in 2022. million in 2022. We recently released our new coworking forecast for 2018-2022.  MORE