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“These costs can be allocated across all parties involved in the work arrangement, from the employer to the worker to the consumer,” said Gene Zaino, CEO of MBO Partners, a management services company for independent professionals. “For Uber, it does not mean that its business model is invalid. It just needs a good system to…

Not only might these “e-procurement” models deliver new transaction cost and on-demand types of efficiencies (provided compliance challenges can be addressed), but they also might mean a shift of talent acquisition and necessarily different procurement approaches (for example, as MBO Partners suggests, where organizations must transform themselves into independent professionals’ “Clients of Choice”). Whether you frame it…

In the lingo, these workers are called ìsolopreneurs.î And their numbers are growing. Such workers now make up approximately 14 percent of the U.S. workforce, or 18 to 21 million people, according to the Society for Human Resource Management. Between 2011 and 2014 alone, there was a 12.5 percent increase in the number of solopreneurs,…

A 2014 study by MBO Partners, to which Kingís firm contributed, found that 38% of independent workers hired independent contractors in the past year, with most of these contractors doing the equivalent of a one-quarter time worker.

According to a study by business services giant, MBO Partners, 30 percent of independent contractors are Baby Boomers. And I say we should expect that number to keep growing.

The continued rise of the independent workforce as well as the on-demand economy have sharpened the focus on the entire work landscape,î said Gene Zaino, president and CEO with MBO Partners. ìAny company with employees should be aware of and adherent to the rules and regulations governing all types of work arrangements, including independent workers.

Some staffing businesses ó large and small ó are stepping up to the challenge of adopting new technologies to further optimize their operational processes or even transform them (or, at the extreme, developing entirely new kinds of staffing services). Some that come to mind are Zenith Talent (with its crowd recruiting model for VMS recs),…

Access to high speed Internet and high-powered mobile computing tools are making it easier than ever for people to leave the traditional office environment and work wherever and whenever they want. A vast 22 million microbusiness owners have created their own jobs. MBO Partners, a consulting firm for independent workers, estimates that by 2020, fully†half…

If youíre looking for a freelance writing job, thereís a lot of competition out there. Though estimates vary, a 2014 report from MBO Partners estimates that†there are more than 40 million freelancers†when you include contractors, part-timers, contingent workers, temps, and the underemployed, as well as those who are full-employed freelancers.

It may be possible to earn $252,000 a year on Uber, but a high income is far from the rule among people who work through platforms for independent workers, according to newly released data from†by MBO Partners, a firm in Herndon, Va., that†studies the independent economy.