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These are among the virtues of "sharing-economy" gigs, as touted in a recent Uber-commissioned survey of its drivers. Other companies offering peer-to-peer platforms, such as Airbnb, TaskRabbit and Homejoy, have made similar pitches: They're giving workers — particularly those who are unable to land traditional jobs or unfulfilled by 9-to-5 Organization Man duties — the freedom to take their breadwinning fates into their own hands. 
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This was the year the job broke, the year we accepted a re-interpretation of its fundamental bargain and bought in to the push to get us to all work for ourselves rather than each other.
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Mainstream economic theories are derived from the era of the production of tangible goods and high-cost communications. These mind-sets are not only unhelpful, but wrong in a world of information products and ubiquitous, low-cost/high-quality connectivity.
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Despite their love of mobile devices, millennials would much prefer talking with a colleague in person over texting or emailing, according to a new
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Advanced technology and a younger, tech-savvy workforce have modernized our work environment with the result that businesses must work faster and collaborate across distances more than ever. To speed operations and facilitate connections, companies are looking to invest in unified communications (UC), digital infrastructures that make collaboration technology ubiquitous.
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Two hugely important statistics concerning the future of employment as we know it made waves recently:
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ATLANTA -- Millions of them still live with their parents. Those who live on their own aren't buying homes. Many have postponed becoming parents themselves. They now make up the largest share of the workforce -- and an even bigger share of the nation's unemployed.
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There’s a dark side to “sharing economy” employment.
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January 28, 2015 9:36 PM
I'm so sick and tired of hearing about the BS "sharing economy". News flash, it's a lie. There is no sharing economy. There is only the economy. Golly Gee Mr. Beaver, I think I'm gonna buy me a "sharing economy" stock today... NOT! As traders, we can't afford to get caught up in the mainstream financial media BS. Sharing economy... like business owners are just throwing money around to share with everyone in a sharing economy. Sounds like some liberal Obama BS to me. Let's all hold hands and share EVERYTHING... WEEEEE!! Go home Dorothy.
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The sharing economy has gained traction and attention in the last few years. Also known as the "gig economy," "consumer-to-consumer sharing," and "peer-to-peer marketplaces," the term “sharing economy” is used to describe a wide variety of exchanges between people, including property, skills, labor, or space. By using an online platform to connect users and providers, this system puts a modern spin on old-fashioned bartering, swapping, borrowing, and trading — and greatly expands the scope and scale of potential exchanges.
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Digital Labor (#DL14): Sweatshops, Picket Lines, Barricades, brings together designers, labor organizers, theorists, social entrepreneurs, historians, legal scholars, independent researchers,...
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Take changes to the public and private sectors together and you’ll see that new government measures will reduce total employment considerably. Family budgets will shrink and so will demand and business earnings. Nevertheless, corporations will benefit because of the large cut in labour costs and the constant rise in productivity that permits further staff reductions.
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I would like to offer my suggestions for how the concept of employment could be addressed, defined, and/or enacted in a resource-based economy (RBE). I work in healthcare, and I see a wholly viable paradigm available for emulation in the medical community’s path of what I will refer to as “Rotation-and-Specialization” (RAS). I will refer to the occupation itself as a service performed by an individual to serve shared needs. Calling a job in a RBE a service makes much more sense to me, because individuals would need to serve in a role (ostensibly several) in order to maintain necessary services.
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The popular notion that high-tech innovation has put millions of people out of work is complete nonsense.
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In an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, former treasury secretary Lawrence Summers revived a debate I'd had with futurist Ray Kurzweil in 2012 about the jobless future.
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Previous technological innovation has always delivered more long-run employment, not less. But things can change
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