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Why the Changing Configuration of Corporations and the Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR) Suggests Working for Yourself Makes Sense

September 9, 2012 by Paul Edwards Leave a Comment

Three influences are making increasingly difficult to find a permanent job or being able to shift from job to job at will.

First, Charles Handy’s prediction that corporations would evolve into “shamrock organizations”  consisting of a core of permanent employees, a network of vendor companies it contracts with, and a larger pool of contingent or temporary workers, is being fulfilled. Temporary workers, [Read more…]

Filed Under: Whatcha Gonna Do to Stay Afloat Personally Tagged With: being your own boss, contingent workers, Labor Force Participation Rate, LFPR, self-employment, shamrock organization, sustainable livelihood, temporary workers

Choose Self-Employment Instead of a Low-Paying Job

September 5, 2012 by Paul Edwards Leave a Comment

A new report from the National Employment Law Project finds that since 2010 the majority of new jobs pay low wages between $7.69 and $13.83 an hour, working as waiters and waitresses, food preparation workers, retail salespersons, and manual laborers. In addition to low-pay, these jobs are tightly supervised and may be part-time, have irregular hours and generally come without benefits. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Sustainable Home Businesses Tagged With: freelance, low-paying job, motivation survey, self-employment, sustainable livelihood

About Me

Paul with his wife, Sarah Edwards, are award-winning authors of 17 books with over 2,000,000 books in print.

Paul provides local marketing consulting through the Small Business Development Center. He is co-founder of a new website: DigitalDocumentPros.com.

Prior to becoming an author, I practiced law, served as CEO of a non-profit, and operated a public affairs consulting practice. [Read more...]

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