The Global Survey on Platform Based Freelancers
Small Business Labs
OCTOBER 5, 2021
The recently released Global Survey on Freelancing covers data gleaned from over 1900 freelancers from across the globe.
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Small Business Labs
OCTOBER 5, 2021
The recently released Global Survey on Freelancing covers data gleaned from over 1900 freelancers from across the globe.
Small Business Labs
JULY 16, 2020
Census Pulse Survey of Households. over the 10 weeks the surveys have been conducted (they started the end of April) the number of self-employed Americans has increased from 13.5 The pulse surveys are short, weekly surveys designed to track how households are doing during the pandemic. million to 15.2
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Small Business Labs
MAY 19, 2020
Census has created a Small Business Pulse survey to track and measure how small businesses are faring during the COVID-19 pandemic. As the Census chart below (click to enlarge) shows , 51% of the small businesses surveyed reported that the pandemic was having a large negative effect on their business.
Small Business Labs
JUNE 30, 2020
Census Small Business Pulse Survey for the week of June 14th to June 20th shows small businesses continue to struggle. 43% of the small businesses surveyed reported a decrease in revenue from the prior week while only 21% reported an increase.
Small Business Labs
JUNE 11, 2019
Interesting survey resluts from Bankrate on side hustles. According to their findings: nearly half of working Americans (45 percent) surveyed reported having a side gig in addition to their primary job. 48% of millennials, 39% of Gen Xers and 28% of Baby Boomers reported having side gigs.
Small Business Labs
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
So we're just getting to a survey on side gigs that CareerBuilder released in September. Key quote from the survey press release : According to a new CareerBuilder survey, 29 percent of workers have a side hustle, a trend that is especially strong among the millennial demographic.
Small Business Labs
AUGUST 25, 2020
Census started a COVID-19 impact survey back in April to measure how the pandemic was impacting small businesses. The weekly surveys ran until the end of June. But after skipping 6 weeks, they're back with what they are calling phase 2 of the surveys. The pulse survey is well worth following.
Small Business Labs
JULY 10, 2018
Bankrate recently released a survey showing that 37% of Americans have some sort of side job. The survey was of adult Americans , of which there are about 250 million. This means the survey found about 92 million Americans have side hustles.
Small Business Labs
JUNE 8, 2018
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) caused quite a stir yesterday with the release of their 2017 Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangement (CWS) survey results. workforce was slightly smaller than they reported the last time the survey was done, which was 13 years ago. gig/contract workers in the U.S. So what’s going on?
Small Business Labs
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
Morning Consult's In a Robust Job Market, Gig Workers Satisfaction on a Par With Wider Workforce covers the results of their recent survey of employed Americans. Morning Consult also provides their questions and a detailed set of survey crosstab results. So has pretty much every other study done on gig workers.
Small Business Labs
AUGUST 2, 2018
Dog food manufacturer Purina recently released the results of a survey of dog owners. Not surprising to anyone who has followed the pet humanization trend , 95% of dog owners say their dog is part of the family.
Small Business Labs
JANUARY 23, 2017
The RideShare Guy released their 2017 Survey Results: Driver Earnings, Satisfaction and Demographics. This confirms something we see across all our survey work on the gig economy. It has lots of interesting data on those who drive for services like Uber and Lyft.
Small Business Labs
JUNE 14, 2018
Getting somewhat lost in the debates around the results from the BLS's 2017 Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangements survey (CWS) are several interesting findings about independent contractors.
Small Business Labs
JANUARY 21, 2016
The Fiscal Times article This Is Why Freelancing Is the Hot Work Trend covers a Staples survey showing that 12 percent of office workers do freelance work on the side in addition to their regular job. This is yet another survey showing that more and more people are taking on side gigs and/or moonlighting.
Small Business Labs
MAY 15, 2014
The Freelancers Union is conducting a survey on how freelancers work and live. The goals of the survey are to better understand how freelancers are changing the definition of success and how they are working with one another to improve their business outcomes. The survey is short and will take 7-9 minutes to complete.
Small Business Labs
MAY 8, 2013
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. This survey was conducted a few months after our survey. This survey was conducted a few months after our survey.
Small Business Labs
AUGUST 22, 2013
Interesting results from a survey from the media company Hulafrog show that most Moms want to work part-time. The survey results are summarized in the infographic below. One important point is the survey is not based on a statistical sample of U.S. Instead, Hulafrog surveyed their online members. women or U.S.
Small Business Labs
OCTOBER 24, 2012
Our friends at Deskmag have released the 3rd annual global coworking survey. Last year over 1500 people from 20+ countries filled out the survey. So if you work or have worked at coworking space please take 5-10 minutes and fill out the survey. Click here to take the survey.
Small Business Labs
MAY 31, 2016
Despite the impressive numbers, the press has been reporting that the Pew survey found few Americans are participating in the on-demand economy. But based on the media coverage, you'd think these services hardly have any customers. " Somehow the fact that 72% reported using on-demand platforms escaped their attention.
Small Business Labs
DECEMBER 18, 2012
As part of the broader Big Data for the Little Guy project, Intuit surveyed 500 small business owners to learn more about how they view big data and its potential. The survey asked for their top reason, but I'm sure if they had been asked to list all the potential barriers most of these would be listed by most of the respondents.
Small Business Labs
MAY 20, 2021
Forerunner Ventures' The universal holding pattern: a period of trial followed by an era of opportunity covers survey work they've done on the impact of the pandemic on consumers. The main reason Forerunner's survey found for the growing interest in self-employment is flexibility.
Small Business Labs
JANUARY 28, 2016
Vanity Fair's The Obama Administration Is Finally Getting Serious About the On-Demand Economy covers the plan by the Department of Labor and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to run the contingent worker supplement as part of the May 2017 current population survey. In the forecasting world, we call this a signal.
Small Business Labs
JUNE 17, 2011
I wasn't familiar with InboxQ until I saw a reference to a survey they'd done in Entrepreneur's Why Savvy Businesses Field Customer Questions on Twitter. " Because of our blog, we get sent a lot of surveys to review. To be honest, most are poorly done. InboxQ&A did not do this.
Small Business Labs
MAY 13, 2011
They are conducting a national survey of small business owners to help them develop programs and incentives to help small businesses save money grow while increasing their sustainability. This survey is part of a broader, Green America project project to identify and quantify “green” opportunities for small business.
Small Business Labs
MAY 10, 2011
You many have noticed that different surveys show very different small business social media usage rates. For example, the Wall Street Journal article Facebook Tops for Small Business reported on a survey that found small businesses quite positive about social media. Another point of view comes from Citibank.
Small Business Labs
AUGUST 3, 2021
the Tilt , a content marketing site, recently released The Unconventionals , a survey and study of online content entrepreneurs. " The survey respondents split almost evenly between full-time content creators (52%) and part-time content creators (48%). Others are powering high-growth content ventures that employ many."
Small Business Labs
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Key quote from Bloomberg's When You Can’t Work From Barcelona, Boulder Might Do , which covers the study: " there is a massive and growing reserve army of digital-nomad wannabes — people who tell the survey-takers they’re planning on going nomadic in the next two or three years, or at least thinking about it."
Small Business Labs
JUNE 24, 2010
As part of this research, SNCR is doing a survey on this topic. If you are involved in the strategy or tactics related to the use of online video for your organization, please help out by taking a short survey. Click Here to Take the Survey. Click Here to Take the Survey.
Small Business Labs
JUNE 15, 2020
Work From Home Survey 2020 report. The survey was done between April 16th to May 4th and the respondents "were required to be working full time for a company of 100 or more people, to have worked in an office environment prior to COVID-19, and to be currently working from home."
Small Business Labs
JUNE 24, 2020
This study is another example of cloud-based, digital data being used instead of traditional survey methods - something we are doing with increasing frequency. We're not suggesting that traditional methods (surveys, interviews, focus groups, etc.) will disappear.
Small Business Labs
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
The Freelancers Union and Elance - oDesk released a study showing that 34% of the American workforce freelances in some form. According to the study, 53 million Americans said they engaged in some form of freelance work in the past year. The study breaks these folks into 5 segments: "Independent Contractors" (40%, or 21.1
Small Business Labs
MARCH 15, 2021
In our work, we've learned surveys asking aspiration questions or questions on hot topics or things that sound like fun result in a large number of false positives. And survey questions about becoming a digital nomad are a good example.
Small Business Labs
JANUARY 7, 2019
. Making Ends Meet: The Role of Informal Work in Supplementing Americans’ Income looked at data from the Federal Reserve Board's Survey of Household Economics and Decision Making (SHED). The study found "28 percent of adults age 18 and older participated in informal work for pay during the survey reference month."
Small Business Labs
JULY 26, 2021
The New York Times article More phone calls, less shopping: how the pandemic changed American lives, down to the minute examines data from the American Time Use survey to show the changes in how Americans spent their time last year. This is likely an example of people not telling the truth on surveys.
Small Business Labs
JANUARY 3, 2019
According to a recent Job Creators Network Foundation survey , "Sixteen-percent of Americans say they are likely to start a new business in 2019." This is an example of the false positive problem with survey data. The false positive problem crops up in many surveys (including ours). Most won't.
Small Business Labs
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
According to a survey by the HR consulting firm Mercer , 73% of the firms surveyed plan to implement a hybrid work environment that includes both in-office and remote work. And a Gartner study found that 82% of executives surveyed plan on allowing employees to work remotely at least some of the time.
Small Business Labs
JANUARY 28, 2019
" As part of the study BCG surveyed 11,000 workers in 11 countries: the US, the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Japan, India, Indonesia, China, and Brazil. BCG took a different approach to their survey than others have. They're also consistent in finding most gig workers chose gig work and most prefer it over other options.
Small Business Labs
MAY 26, 2020
Lots of work from home (WFH) surveys have been conducted over the past month. For example, the Global Workplace Analytics Work from Home Experience Survey found that "U.S. " And as the Harris/Zapier survey chart below shows (click to enlarge), 66% of the respondents prefer working at the office.
Small Business Labs
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
Our research on small business formation shows about 9% of those who say in surveys they plan to start a small/solopreneur business over the next 2-3 years in our surveys end up doing so. So our data is pretty consistent with the Census.
Small Business Labs
AUGUST 5, 2021
Despite the negatives, survey after survey shows most gig workers (and most rideshare drivers) prefer being gig workers over being a traditional employee. And survey after survey also shows that a key reason for this is the flexibility gig work provides.
Small Business Labs
APRIL 27, 2021
Most gig economy and freelance studies cover a broad range of independent workers, so it's interesting when someone does a segmented, vertical market study on a freelancers. Also, 76% of the respondents reported their financial situation has negatively impacted their mental health.
Small Business Labs
JANUARY 22, 2019
Several recent surveys focused on the pay rates on income of independent and freelance writers. The Authors Guild’s 2018 Author Income Survey collected pay data from over 5,000 published book authors. The second survey comes from The Make a Living Writing blog. But again there is good news.
Small Business Labs
JANUARY 26, 2021
This the 16th year WEF has issued a global risk report and the results come from an extensive risk survey of a wide range of risk related professionals. The World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Risk Report identifies the top risks faced by businesses and society over the next decade.
Small Business Labs
JANUARY 24, 2019
According to a recent Intuit survey , about 60% of small businesses with fewer than 20 employees use outside accountants to help them with their taxes. The study chart below shows the answers given by the survey respondents. The study chart below shows the answers given by the survey respondents.
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