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2022: My “Year” in Review

Productivityist

In terms of how I’m structuring this annual review, I decided that I’ll highlight 6 things from each season: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn. I’ll be looking back through my journal entries to make sense of this review as well. I encourage you to take time to write your own annual review. Something small.

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Super Temps to the Rescue

Small Business Labs

Excellent article in the Harvard Business Review on The Rise of the SuperTemp. CNBC's The Rise of the SuperTemp in the C Suite is another version of the HBR article focused on the increasing use of executive temps.   The demand for executive temps is growing and companies are responding.

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Book Review: Raw Deal - How the Uber Economy is Screwing American Workers

Small Business Labs

Because of this dark side, we need better laws and protections for temps, contract workers and others being unfairly exploited or in need of more economic security.  Despite the book's hyperbole, vitriol and one-sided point of view, I genuinely enjoyed it.   And Raw Deal does a great job describing the dark side. 

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Review of Our Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2010

Small Business Labs

.  As part of the process of putting together next year's list, we review last year's list.    The Shift to Contingent Workers Turns Employees into Entrepreneurs :  If anything, the shift to contingent workers (part-timers, temps, contractors, freelancers, etc.)   Here is how we did in 2010: 1. 

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Is it the Gig, Sharing, Access, 1099, Freelance or On-Demand Economy?

Small Business Labs

  The article references the Harvard Business Review's  The Sharing Economy Isn’t About Sharing at All  which makes the point that the sharing economy is really about paying for access to an asset or service.  have nothing to do with sharing. 

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Is the Staffing Industry Facing a Kodak Moment?

Small Business Labs

In the Staffing Industry Review article Human Cloud, IT Staffing Firms Eye Each Other - Warily he's quoted as saying: “Almost all large, sophisticated corporations are flat-out refusing to use non-W2 temporary labor.   An interesting example comes from a quote from Peter Dameris, CEO of large staffing firm On Assignment.

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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

Success

professor emeritus of human resource management at Rutgers University and editor of Compensation & Benefits Review. “Career development used to be part of HR planning,” says Charles H. Companies would say, ‘Here are the people we have, here are the people we need.… How can we develop them?’ Nobody does that anymore.”.

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