The Future of Work and its Impacts on Small Businesses and Independent Workers
Our 2022 research agenda continues to be focused on the future of work and what it means for small businesses and independent workers (freelancers, independent consultants, etc.).
This is a broad topic and this year's deeper research dives include:
1. The Post Pandemic Economy: The pandemic has accelerated some trends and shifts, decelerated some and created new ones. The goal of this research is to better understand how changes caused by the pandemic will impact small businesses and independent workers over the next 3-5 years.
2. The Independent Worker: We are again partnering with MBO Partners on the 12th annual edition of the State of Independence in America study. This year will include a deep dive on highly skilled independent who provide services to larger enterprises.
3. The Platform Economy: We're continuing our ongoing research on the impact online platforms and marketplaces are having on corporations, small business and independent workers.
4. Web 3.0: This research project focuses on how Web 3.0 technologies will impact the future of work, businesses and independent workers.
5. Digital Nomads and Remote Work: We will continue work started in 2018 analyzing the growing number of digital nomads, including who they are, why they are nomads and how they work. This is part of a broader, multi-year study looking at the future of remote work.
6. The Creator Economy: We will continue our deep dive on independent digital content creators we started in 2020.