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

Small Business Labs

  The GAO's definition of contingent covers the broad category of workers who aren't full-time, permanent employees. The GAO includes the following in their definition: Agency temps: (1.3%). Government Accountability Office (GAO), 40% of the U.S. workforce is contingent, up from 30% in 2005. 

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Top 5 Tips for Finding Great Employees (cheaply!)

The Small Business Blog

Temp agencies are useful – look at them as being a trial period for potential employees. David Said on February 8th, 2010 at 9:14 pm In Australia, companies definitely prefer to hire people they know and a lot of have financial incentives in place where if employees refer another employee, they get a bonus.

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"Gig" - The Word of the Year

Small Business Labs

  But our research and the research of others (including government agencies) consistently shows the majority of gig workers chose to be gig workers, are satisfied with gig work and plan to continue as gig workers.

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Guest Post: What Makes Virtual Administrative Assistants Work?

Laughing all the Way to Work

And that’s where a virtual administrative assistant can step in to make all the difference.

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13 Best Recruitment Podcasts Recruiters Need To Listen To [Updated]

Recruit CRM

This is something you're definitely going to look forward to listening every week. Dualta Doherty In this podcast Dualta Doherty interviews Agency Recruitment leaders from all over the world. Temp and Contract staffing makes up 90% of global recruitment revenue (*source: SIA). Think about that for a minute.

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Outsourcing Options For Small Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Virtual workers can be from a “Temp-Agency&# or a from contracting firms. Both of these relationships are good for your cost-planning because they are not fixed, permanent costs, they are variable cost, meaning, when the project is finished the contract for your temp-workers, contractors finishes too.

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