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With 4.5 million employees quitting their jobs and one of the lowest job participation rates in decades, employers are struggling to fill the over 10 million open jobs reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics earlier this month. Yet, two stealth developments at the Department of Labor are poised to make that struggle even worse. The independent…

Author Connie Steele on How Employers and Employees are Reworking Work Together. The MBO Partners 2021 State of Independence report shows that 2021 was the first year that Millennials and Gen-Z made up the majority of the independent workforce, 34% and 17% respectively. These two generations also currently make up over half the population in…

Caroline Bruckner, American University Kogod School of Business Tax Professor & Kogod Tax Policy Center Managing Director, joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the IRS’ latest tax policy changes regarding payment platforms, how the agency will distinguish taxable income, and 2023 tax returns.

A new labor market survey by the business analytics firm MBO Partners found that the number of gig workers in the United States surged in 2021, from 38 million to 51 million workers—a 34 percent increase. While it is far from clear if that growth will continue once the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, a slew of other recent…

Flavio Palaci, chief product and digital transformation officer at MBO Partners, a Herndon, Virginia-based company that provides a digital marketplace for businesses and independent professional talent to connect with one another, has a message for tech leaders: don’t forget to focus on the humans. From new workplace setups to artificial intelligence to how to get…

If you’re sitting at your desk, daydreaming about starting your own business, this is the article for you. You already know that launching a company can be an intimidating process requiring tons of hard work. But the question has been lingering with you day and night. Maybe you’re just unhappy with your current position. Perhaps you’ve always dreamed of opening…

The invisible workforce is fueled by a rising “gig” or “on demand” economy. The gig economy is an outcome of the great recession leaving us with fewer corporate jobs and many long term unemployed. While traditional jobs are fewer, many have become entrepreneurs in their own right creating opportunity until something else comes along. This trend…

Levantarse. Ir al lugar de trabajo. Cumplir con la jornada laboral. Volver a casa. Y cada día, vuelta a empezar. Así es la rutina más habitual de cualquier profesional medio… ¿o deberíamos decir “era”? Depende de a quién se le pregunte. Al fin y al cabo, además de nuevos tipos de profesiones enmarcadas en un…