While Uber, Airbnb and the other players in the “sharing economy” have captured public attention, the technologies underlying them continue to evolve at a rapid pace and it would be a mistake to think about the future of work in terms...
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Peer2Politics
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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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jean lievens
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When it comes to paying better wages and keeping employees happy, Zappos isn't waiting for the other shoe to drop. 
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Since it opened up five years ago, TaskRabbit has often been a godsend to people with more money than time. The company stocks its auction house of personal assistants with people ready to deliver cupcakes to your office, or assemble your Ikea furniture, or clean your home. But last summer, executives at TaskRabbit noticed a problem. The percentage of completed tasks posted to the services auction house had leveled off and was beginning to decline. Individual tasks were seeing fewer bids, indicating frustration on the part of the workers who used the site. The company was stumped: TaskRabbit added 1.25 million users to its system in 2013 and doubled its force of contractors to 25,000. Supply and demand were as big as they had ever been, the company says, but something wasn’t working.
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Before Uber and Airbnb, there was Zipcar. Robin Chase, the founder of ZipCar, has been studying the peer economy ever since.
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It's a word despairing teachers use to describe the class troublemakers, but in Silicon Valley "disruptive" is what everyone wants to be.
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