Archive for March 2016

PwC has chosen to build its platform itself and has engineered it to work with other independent worker ecosystem service providers such as MBO Partners (an Emergent Research client), which is providing PwC with a compliance system for engaging and paying the independent worker community.

It’s estimated there are nearly 18 million full-time independent workers in the U.S., up from about 16 million in 2011. About 12.4 million Americans work part-time as independent workers, according to a 2015 report from MBO Partners. By, 2020, it’s expected 40% of the American workforce will be independent contractors, working on a contingent basis…

The so-called gig economy is bigger than you think. Speaking at the Society for Human Resource Management’s Employment Law & Legislative Conference last week in Washington, Gene Zaino of MBO Partners—which advises self-employed business people—said there are 42 million “gig” workers in the United States.

“It’s no longer about being an employer of choice, but being a client of choice,” said Gene Zaino, president and CEO of MBO Partners, providers of business operating systems for independent workers and the corporations who engage them.

Elaine Pofeldt’s 5-part series, focusing on starting one’s own business, quotes MBO Partners CEO Gene Zaino extensively.