As many organizations are still trying to figure out the strategy and rules of the road to introduce generative AI into their processes and workflows, the AI adoption ship has…
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Steve King
Steve King is a founding partner of Emergent Research where he leads the firm’s ongoing research identifying, analyzing and forecasting the global trends and shifts impacting consumers, small businesses, the gig economy, independent workers and Web 3.0’s role in future of work. Steve enjoys wide industry recognition as an expert on the future of work. He is an active public speaker and has written for the Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, U.S. News and World Report, Venture Beat, Wired and other publications. Steve also serves as a Founding Research Fellow at Team Flow Institute.
Gen Z Driving the Changing Demographics of Independent Work
Gen Z has often been called “the most entrepreneurial generation ever.” The data increasingly shows this to be true. 2021 represents a watershed year in terms of the generational makeup…
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What are DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations)? And Why Should You Care
The simplest way to describe DAOs – distributed autonomous organizations – is that they are online communities owned and controlled by their members. The basics are a group of people…
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The Number of Digital Nomads Surged Again in 2021
The pandemic-driven seismic shift to remote led to continued strong growth in the number of American digital nomads in 2021. The 2021 State of Independence research study found that 15.5…
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The Pandemic Accelerated Independent Worker Use of Online Marketplaces
One of the most significant shifts we’ve seen over the 11 years of the ongoing MBO Partners State of Independence study series is the increased use of online marketplaces to…
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The Metaverse is Coming
The metaverse has been getting a lot of media attention recently, mainly because Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook plans to shift from being a social media company to a metaverse company….
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Tropical Island Digital Nomads
The Wall Street Journal article Some People Worked From Home During Covid. These People Moved to a Tropical Island covers the growing number of Caribbean islands offering digital nomad visas and includes…
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Do Gig Workers Want to be Employees?
The quick answer to the title question is most gig workers don’t want to be employed in a traditional job. But some do. This topic has come up because last week…
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How the Pandemic Changed the Way Americans Spend Their Time
The New York Times article More phone calls, less shopping: how the pandemic changed American lives, down to the minute examines data from the American Time Use survey to show the changes in how…
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The Return of Co-working and Third Places
In a clear signal that co-working is coming back post-pandemic, the high-end combo social club/co-working space Soho House went public last week under the name Membership Collective Group. Soho House is targeted…
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