work, society and leisure are changing.
The most entrepreneurial country in the West is built on failure
The net number of U.S. startups versus closures is minus 70,000. (Source: US Census Bureau, Longitudinal Business Database)
Folk managing themselves and themselves alone
There are over 22 million non-employer businesses. Meaning they have no boss and they have no staff underneath them.
They just get up and do.
(Source: US Census Bureau)
Locations where work was conducted during the past month
(Source: Telework 2011 by World at Work using data collected by the Dierenger Research Group Inc and World at Work)
Folk escaping the cubicle on a daily basis
3.7 million employees (2.5 % of the workforce) now work from home at least half the time.
(Source: Based on an analysis of 2005-2014 American Community Survey (US Census Bureau) data conducted by GlobalWorkplaceAnalytic.com)
Folk escaping the cubicle for a long time
Of the 2014 FORTUNE 100 Best Companies, 72 % offer sabbaticals.
(Source: Rohman, Jessica, “How great workplaces support work-life balance”, 19 May 2014, www.greatplacetowork.com)
Lots of people share the same starting line
It's estimated that one in every eight workers in the United States has at some point been employed by McDonald's.
(Source: New York Times)
…And lots of people don't: being different is becoming the new norm
In 2013, 12.5 % of the UK population was born outside the UK. That's up from 8.6 % in 2003.
(Source: The Migration Observatory www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk)
Small businesses are everywhere
There were 5 million micro-businesses (those with less than 10 staff) in the UK in 2014, accounting for 96 % of all businesses.
(Source: BIS, Business Population Estimates 2014
You will live longer
So do something you enjoy.
Life expectancy in the United States
(Source: National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics Reports, vol. 54, no. 19, June 28, 2006 and Vol. 63, No. 7, November 6, 2014. Web: www.cdc.gov/nchs)
And there's a lot of us around
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