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Breaking Down the Freelance Economy

Harvard Business Review

For the past few years, the main data source for those trying to quantify the freelance economy has been a 2006 Government Accountability Office report that put the number of “contingent workers” at 42.6 million, or 31% of the workforce. And yes, 53 million is more than 42.6 This new survey of 5,052 U.S.

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

A survey conducted for the past three years on behalf of MBO Partners , a provider of support services for independent workers, counts temp workers, on-call workers, and those on fixed-term contracts as “independent workers.” It gets that from a 2006 Government Accountability Office report that said there were about 42.6

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