Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

  In 2014- 2015 the concept of "platform cooperatisim" was widely discussed in sharing economy circles.   For those who want to learn more, Harvard Business School's Future of Work project has an excellent podcast interview with the founders of Braintrust.

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 15, 2019

Salon's Mike Schur's new sitcom "Abby's" is "Cheers" for the gig economy is an interview with the producers of a new NBC sitcom that takes places in a backyard bar.    The interview covers what a show set in an illegal backyard bar says about modern culture. 

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 19, 2021

  Key quote: In a Zoom interview on Thursday with  Barron’s  from his office in Redwood City, Calif., "; Social selling isn't new.  .   In the Barron's article Poshmark CEO Sees Huge Market for Used Goods.    The direct selling industry is also large , with about 6.8

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 3, 2020

  It's based on extensive surveys and interviews across 33 countries and updates similar efforts conducted in 2013 and 2016.  But it's easy to see based on the study findings why "a world divided by its values" is one of the 12 dominant trends.   These are: Climate emergency and antagonism. . 

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 10, 2024

Around 40 percent of organisations surveyed have alternative application processes in place, up from 35 percent last year and 44 percent of organisations have neuro-inclusive strategies in place, compared to 34 percent last year. There is a 7 percent increase in the number of organisations with a neuro-inclusive commitment in place.

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 4, 2016

J Walter Thompson Intelligence's The Luxury of Less suggests that "pared-down lifestyles" with less stuff are becoming aspirational for the well-off. NPR Marketplace has an interesting interview with the president of Ikea about their research on the American Dream. It echos the idea of peak stuff. 

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On The Job

JULY 6, 2010

Videoconferencing is becoming more and more popular across all industries and job levels as a way not to just conduct meetings between far-flung participants, but as a way to interview potential employees. Sometimes a television camera films the job candidate in a studio while a television screen projects the interviewer at another location.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 15, 2019

  As the Post article points out, "Half of U.S. "; And without savings, people are vulnerable to financial shocks such as a job loss, healthcare issue or unexpected major expense.   The Washington Post also has an excellent podcast interview with the article's author.  jobs pay less than $18.58

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

.  You are ready to get your promotion "out there." "; You are running smoothly, when all of the sudden, someone decides to put a hurdle right in the middle of the track! What if you could have a pre-view of the hurdles that other "racers" / program launchers have run into? Now you can!

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Allwork

APRIL 15, 2024

Jeremy Fennema [ 00:23:34 ]: Let me just interject real quick. Jeremy Fennema [ 00:26:34 ]: Nice. Jeremy Fennema [ 00:29:34 ]: Yep. Jeremy Fennema [ 00:30:34 ]: Yep, yep. Frank Cottle [ 00:34:08 ]: I know you’re a little freaky. Part of it is promotion, but also an awful lot of it is reality.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 14, 2017

These two lists almost completely overlap, with the obvious exception being "greater stability and job security"   Given these lists, it's not surprising that the self-employed consistently tell us in interviews they are trading job security in exchange for greater work autonomy, control and flexibility. 

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Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

We also reviewed our coworking interviews and found many references to coworking reducing the social isolation of independent and remote workers. The most common comment of this type is "it's so nice being around people"   This, by the way, is also what we hear from people who work in coffee shops.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The research was based on digging through the data at the knitting community site Ravely.com,  which is known as the "Facebook for knitters" Key quote from a Washington Post article on the study : analyzed almost 100 interviews and 403,168 profiles of knitters and crocheters.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 8, 2017

The "Big 4" accounting and consulting firm Deloitte has released a series of articles, podcasts and videos on the future of work.    "Off-balance sheet talent" is the term Deloitte uses for contingent (non-employee) talent and gig economy workers. . 

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Success

APRIL 7, 2023

Just over a quarter of survey participants—including 32% of Generation Z and 34% of millennial respondents—“always, almost always or often have a harder time falling asleep on Sunday nights compared with other nights of the week.”

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 27, 2011

  Today I interview the CEO of the Boston-based company, Eddy Inserra, and he'll tell us more about how you can connect all of your websites in one spot and reference ONE url or QR code.  Thank you, Steph, glad to be interviewed on P&O!    I call ItsMyURLs one of my productivity powerhouse tools. . 

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Small Business Labs

JULY 22, 2014

But we were surprised that over half of the respondents listed "help me stay sane" as being an important or extremely important role their networks play. Upon reflection - and with the help of a few follow-up interviews - we realized this makes perfectly good sense.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

OCTOBER 22, 2012

  You are ready to get your promotion "out there." "; You are running smoothly, when all of the sudden, someone decides to put a hurdle right in the middle of the track!   I'm interviewing various industry experts and asking them about their product or program launches.  Now you can!

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Additionally, about one third (32%) listed "wanted to try something new" as a reason for working in the ODE. We used part of the key quote in our article title: "As a freelancer my career is a constant classroom – unlike university though, it’s one where I can earn money for attending."

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Small Business Labs

JULY 30, 2015

  Regular readers know the gig economy industry has been aware of the problems with asking about "2nd jobs" for several years. For example, we changed our surveys to ask about "other sources of income" instead of "other jobs" about 3 years ago.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JUNE 17, 2011

Many people have become "information junkies" collecting all kinds of information but not having it in a format that makes it usable.    To see an example of a "public" view of Springpad, here is Jeff's.     We can’t have an interview here and not talk about productivity! 

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2007

Home About Me Advertise The 4 Most Difficult Interview Questions By The Professional Assistant on Friday, November 23, 2007 Filed Under: Job Seeking A re you going in for an interview for that dream job? Follow these simple four steps and you will find that you will pass these interviews with flying colours.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 24, 2015

  In our most recent survey of people with 2nd jobs, about 20% of these "side giggers" said "learning new skills" was the reason they had a 2nd job. But out interviews from a decade ago shows a much smaller percentage of side giggers citing this reason.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JUNE 24, 2011

The question of " Where in the world does my time really go? " "; is often asked by frustrated business owners.    They both admitted that there were times that they did work, but it did not get billed and that sometimes they "fudged" with their tracking.    We also gave our 1.1

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Key quote: "Older workers are trying lawsuits, classes, makeovers—even surgery—to keep working." "; Age discrimination and a preference for younger workers has always been part of the Silicon Valley - and the tech industry in general.    Tech firms and industry participants often don't even try to hide this.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 25, 2016

.  The study consisted of a survey of over 400 small business owners coupled with a set of 26 in-depth interviews with "successful" business owners. This is not to say small business owners don't want to grow at all. Nor are we saying small business don't care about making money.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 19, 2016

In 1973 Stanford professor Mark Granovetter described the powerful role that "weak ties" – links among people who are not closely associated - play in spreading ideas, finding jobs and helping people join together for action. "; These findings have very important implications for freelancers and coworking. 

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 1, 2015

But as HBR's  excellent interview  with Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee - faculty members at the MIT Sloan School of Management - describes, starting around 2000 the growth in labor productivity "decoupled" from job and wage growth. These 4 factors used to move more or less in unison.

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Clutter Coach

DECEMBER 3, 2015

In an interview with CIO Insight magazine, David Allen said, " If you are unproductive to begin with, technology will add something else you are unproductive about." "; Having great tools is wonderful, but they don’t automatically bestow the skills needed to use them. Sometimes more is just … more.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 9, 2015

  According to one economist : "Not only are the labor markets stronger today than at any point in the past 20 years, but we are beginning to see the start of broad-based wage growth," Rick Rieder, chief investment officer for fundamental fixed income at BlackRock, said in a client note.

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Clutter Coach

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

In an interview with CIO Insight magazine, David Allen said, " If you are unproductive to begin with, technology will add something else you are unproductive about." "; Having great tools is wonderful, but they don’t automatically bestow the skills needed to use them. Sometimes more is just … more.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 4, 2016

  The article does this by breaking the word freelancer into two parts - "free" (the good) and "lance" (the bad). Key quote on the "free": The ultimate perk: freedom. Key quote on the "lance": There's the battle. Being one's own boss is great.

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Clutter Coach

JANUARY 11, 2016

In an interview with CIO Insight magazine, David Allen said, " If you are unproductive to begin with, technology will add something else you are unproductive about." "; Having great tools is wonderful, but they don’t automatically bestow the skills needed to use them. Sometimes more is just … more.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

"; In other words, independent workers with autonomy and control are highly satisfied and like their work. ." "; In other words, independent workers with autonomy and control are highly satisfied and like their work. to experience the autonomy and control independence provides.

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Clutter Coach

DECEMBER 12, 2015

by I’ve been reading Timothy Ferriss’s blog, specifically his entries about the " low information diet." "; This is a powerful concept. the news, from Ferriss’s interview with Drew Curtis of Fark.com: Ferriss: If you had to limit your information intake to less than 30 minutes a day.

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Clutter Coach

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

by I’ve been reading Timothy Ferriss’s blog, specifically his entries about the " low information diet." "; This is a powerful concept. the news, from Ferriss’s interview with Drew Curtis of Fark.com: Ferriss: If you had to limit your information intake to less than 30 minutes a day.

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 14, 2015

We quit using the term "work/life balance" many years ago. Instead, we started using "work/life flexibility" This term fit what we were hearing in our interviews and seeing in our survey results. It simply doesn't fit the world most of us live in.

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