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We were very excited last year when coworking was listed as a primary or secondary work location for 1.7% of the respondents of our annual independent worker survey. To the best of our knowledge, this was the first time coworking blipped on a national, statistically significant survey of any kind. ...

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One of the interesting aspects of self-employment is that the likelihood of being self-employed increases with age. The chart below shows self-employment as a percentage of total employment by age group. The data comes from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and includes both unincorporated and incorporated self-employed. It ...

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The New York Times article One Big Workbench covers the growth of hackerspaces, which are coworking facilities for people who like to hack or make things.  Think of them as shared workshops instead of shared offices.  Like coworking facilities, hackerspaces (also called makerspaces) generally use a gym-like membership model with  with monthly fees ...

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The Calculated Risk blog has an article on construction spending falling in March.  But more interesting to me was the chart shown below. It illustrates how big the pre-recession housing bubble was.     Not surprisingly, employment in the construction sector also took a big hit with the collapse of ...

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Axle Contemporary is an art gallery on wheels.  Housed in the back of a custom retrofitted 1970 aluminum stepvan, Axle cruises around Santa Fe, New Mexico showing and selling art at strip malls and other locales not known for artistic appreciation. As reported in a New York Times article on Axle, it's ...

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Barron's The $22,500 Bicycle covers the growing demand for handmade, customized and high end bicycles. The title refers to an expensive custom bike made by bike studio Signature Cycles - and yes, it costs $22,500. Of course most custom bikes are a lot cheaper than $22,500.  Prices in the $5,000 to ...

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Well known tech journalist and analyst Tom Foremski's Futurists ... and the 'End of Work' looks at the employment disruption being caused by digital technologies. He argues that technology is destroying more jobs that it's creating, leading to a potential future where there simply isn't enough work to go around.  Key ...

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Last year we suggested growth in the underground economy is likely a key reason workforce participation has fallen so much in the U.S.  Others are starting to also suggest this.  Noted author James Surowiecki's New Yorker article The Underground Recovery points out: Ordinary Americans have gone underground, and, as the recovery ...

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The growth of the independent workforce (freelancers, temps, self-employed, etc.) has also led to a growing ecosystem of companies supporting independent workers and the firms that hire them. This ecosystem includes a wide range of firm types, including: Talent marketplaces: firms like Elance, Odesk and Freelancer.com that connect independent workers ...

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Regular readers know we like pet trends. And in particular, anything related to the trend towards "pet humanization" tends to catch our eye. This is the trend towards pet owners viewing themselves as "pet parents" and treating their pets as full-fledged family members.   Spoiled Rotten Pets is a new TV ...

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In case you haven't heard, Detroit's a mess. It has acres of empty buildings, frightening crime rates, crushing public debt and sky high unemployment. Despite these problems, there's been a flurry articles on entrepreneurs partnering with foundations and grassroots organizations to rebuild the once great city.   These include: How ...

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CNN's Hotels vie to become the offices of the future looks at the growing trend of hotels offering office and meeting spaces as well as coworking-like lobbies.   The key quote comes from Mark Gilbreath, CEO of workspace marketplace LiquidSpace: "Hotels implicitly are in the business of space; they are ...

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This is a bit more geeky than we like to get here at Smallbizlabs, but the rise of big data is resulting in growing numbers of people being exposed to statistical data and jargon. A spurious correlation is a statistical term that describes a relationship between two variables that seem to ...

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Staffing firm Allegis and the Human Capital Institute teamed up on a study on how corporate procurement and HR departments view the growing contingent workforce.   It's a broad based study looking at a number of issues related to the contingent workforce. But I most liked the chart below, which ...

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Wayward Sons: The Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education is a fascinating study by noted MIT economist economist David Autor and MIT PhD student Melanie Wasserman.  They suggest that an emerging economic gender gap favoring women is developing. This gap is being driven by the underperformance of boys ...

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