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Prepare for the New Permanent Temp

Harvard Business Review

Temporary employment has jumped 50% since the depths of the financial crisis. Just ask anyone working in the health care, financial services, automobile, retail, media, publishing, education, advertising, real estate or defense industries. Economy Hiring Human resources' Something profoundly structural is going on.

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

And real estate agents, contractors, and others who are dependent on a boom-bust housing sector which has been mostly a bust in recent years. Entrepreneurship Human resources Small/medium business' Sole-practitioner lawyers who are getting out of a field that seems to be in long-term decline.

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Where the Green Jobs Really Are

Harvard Business Review

There's much brouhaha about "green jobs" those that arise from new clean-tech companies, created to help solve the climate crisis. For most, real estate is the second-largest expense. I'm all for this — we need this kind of innovation — but green jobs are hardly the economic cure-all they are often made out to be.

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We Can’t Talk About Inequality Without Talking About Talent

Harvard Business Review

To be fair, macroeconomists don’t view human resources as completely generic “labor.” Market participants imagine what will happen in the future and pay prices for securities — whether stocks, bonds or real estate investments — that reflect their beliefs about the future value of such securities.