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Breaking Down the Freelance Economy

Harvard Business Review

To really get a sense of where we’re going, though, they will need to keep paying for identical surveys for years to come (the back-office firm MBO Partners has been doing this for a narrower population of “independent workers” for three years now ). Economy Entrepreneurship Human resources'

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The Freelance Economy Still Runs on Word of Mouth

Harvard Business Review

But we’re not quite there yet, according to a new survey conducted for MBO Partners, which provides back-office services to independent workers — which it dubs “solopreneurs.” Economy Entrepreneurship Human resources' Overall, there are now an estimated 17.9 million last year and 15.9 I bet you got that gig by word of mouth.

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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.” Given that the actual research commissioned by MBO says that there are now about 17.7

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