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Organize Your To-Do List into These 4 Categories

Success

I often find myself pulled in too many directions, reacting to phone calls, email and other stuff that pops up. Even microbusiness owners can benefit from an intern or temp. I set up three a day, usually two in the morning, when my brain works best on creative things, and one in late afternoon to finish up.

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Designing A Better Future For The Workplace

Allwork

Increasingly, it will be up to designers, architects and other experts to help organizations work through energy efficiency requirements and metrics. This article was originally written by RSP’s Jeremi Van Wave for Work Design Magazine. It finally feels like something is happening.

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Europe's Young, Contingent, "Floating Generation"

Small Business Labs

But even though I'm familiar with the labor situation in Europe, I was still stunned by the data in the New York Times article Young, Educated and Jobless in France. Instead, younger Europeans "float" from temp job to temp job. percent — nearly two million young people who have given up; in Italy, 20.5

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Academic Freelancer Woes

Small Business Labs

The PhD Now Comes with Food Stamps is an interesting article on the struggles of adjunct university faculty.  According to the article, the average adjunct is paid $2500 per course taught, but it can be as low as $600. All of this adds up to situation like the one described in article - a women with a Ph.D

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The GAO Finds Twice as Many Self-Employed as the BLS

Small Business Labs

workforce is contingent, up from 30% in 2005.  The GAO includes the following in their definition: Agency temps: (1.3%). It also helps answer the question asked in the HBR article Where are all the Self-Employed Workers? Government Accountability Office (GAO), 40% of the U.S. Contract company workers (3.0%).

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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

Success

“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. Even people in less high-tech jobs feel the pressure to beef up their expertise. It’s life preparation.

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Beyond the Org Chart: How Procedures Elevate Leadership in Administrative Professionals

All Things Admin

Before leaving, I was able to spend a few days going over the binder with my temp. She was very appreciative to have such a detailed point of reference to help her quickly get up to speed. The person covering in my absence would have to hit the ground running, and this guide would serve as the tool to help them do it.