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Tag: Workplace Sat, March 20, 2010

• A Clean, Well-Lighted Place for Freelancers

  Sep 03, 2009, by Jessica Lussenhop Business
  

  You’d think the easiest way to find out about the effectiveness of “coworking”—the phenomenon whereby work-at-homers, freelancers and other indie business strangers elect to set up shop in a building and find out what happens—is to ask the coworkers (not to be confused with the tradition-bound drones known as “co-workers”) themselves. Trouble is, they’re all too busy working.

• Self-Employment Gets A Grip in Santa Cruz

  Sep 03, 2009, by Curtis Cartier Business
  

  They’ve come from around the country and the world to gather on the bare concrete floor of an empty office building and talk shop. A sea of laptop-clutching writers, photographers, graphic designers, IT specialists, engineers, public relations officials and advertisement representatives with one thing in common: they never want to work for another boss again.