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How The Gig Economy Will Change In 2017

Originally published in "Fast Company". Growing or shrinking? Changing the way we work? Experts weigh in on how freelance, gigging, and contract work will change this year.
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Disruption and Demand for Growth Leads to the Rise of the Gig Executive

Originally published in "Rocket News". Today’s highly-competitive, global environment is changing the way companies hire and the way people work.
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Will the Gig Economy Make the Office Obsolete?

Originally published in "Harvard Business Review". The gig economy, where independent consultants, contractors, and freelancers create portfolios of work in lieu of one full-time job, is transforming the way we work by disconnecting work from an office.
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What Is Driving The 'Gig' Economy?

Originally published in "Forbes". Covering the evolution of the jobs market, we’ve touched on the changing nature of employment in the United States. Whether you call it an “agile” workforce or a “gig” economy, the number employees working on a project or contract basis has been on the rise, or so sources insist.
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What Motivates Gig Economy Workers

Originally published in "Harvard Business Review". The gig economy workforce is growing. A new Pew Research Center survey on the sharing economy shows that 8% of American adults earned money from an online employment platform in the last year across industries, such as ride hailing, online tasks, and cleaning/laundry.
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Who Wins in the Gig Economy, and Who Loses

Originally published in "Harvard Business Review". The winners and losers in the U.S. economy have traditionally been easy to identify. If you had a full-time job, you won. A full-time job provided the steady income needed to support our traditional version of the American Dream: the highly leveraged, high-fixed-cost house; the cars; the latest consumer goods.
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Independent work: Choice, necessity, and the gig economy

Originally published in "McKinsey & Company". The McKinsey Global Institute examines all the ways people are earning income, as well as the challenges independent work presents.
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Why I Tell My MBA Students to Stop Looking for a Job and Join the Gig Economy

Originally published in "Harvard Business Review". When the students in the MBA course I teach on the gig economy ask me for the best thing they can do to prepare for their future careers, I tell them...
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Does Toronto Have What it Takes to Compete

Originally published in Toronto Board of Trade’s "OnBoard magazine". This is the Summer 2016 edition.
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