WSJ Lauren Weber reports on freelancers growing as percentage of workforce, 9/4/2014

mainly focused on UK with a few stats on US, by Ben Davis @ Econsultancy, 2/12/2014. It shows the rise in freelancing for sure.

Article by Jeannine English, Tampa Tribune, 2/14/2015. Four broad focus areas of WHCoA--Retirement security, healthy aging, long-term services and supports, elder justice

blog post on finding jobs online--may be useful for Encore seekers

not an employee leasing company among them in Tampa Bay but these are the largest public companies with earnings ranging from over 26 billion to <2 billion.

article by Jeff Harrington, TBT writer, 8.20.2014. more information on fastest growing companies in Tampa Bay area

My search for employee leasing companies in this area

This employee leasing company--SouthEast Personnel Leasing, earned Top Workplace honors for five years ending in 2014. Located in Holiday, FL. Has 283 employees.

Progressive Employee Management Co. (PEMCO) is an employee leasing company headquartered in Manatee County. $73 million a year.

Marketing case for why businesses should hire PEOs. They let the business focus on the business side, not the management of employees.

"What is a PEO? A Professional Employer Organization (PEO) is a human resource outsourcing company designed to assist small, medium and large size businesses to concentrate on their own business by taking on the headaches of payroll, workers' compensation and human resource management."

From SouthEast Personnel Leasing, Inc. in Holiday, FL What is the difference between temporary staffing services and a PEO? A temporary staffing service recruits and hires employees and assigns them to clients to support or supplement the client's workforce in special work situations, such as employee absences, temporary skill shortages or seasonal workloads. These workers are traditionally only a small portion of the client's workforce. A PEO hires the clients existing employees and assigns them back. These employees can be full time, part time or seasonal workers. These workers make up the bulk of the clients workforce.

Article from 1995 when employee leasing was huge in Florida. "The National Assn. of Professional Employer Organizations (NAPEO) says 2,178 leasing companies leased 1.6 million workers in 1993. Though Florida's Department of Business and Professional Regulation does not keep statistics on the number of employees leased in Florida, the largest company in the state (as well as the nation), Bradenton-based Staff Leasing Inc., reports more than 60,000 employees - almost double the work force of Walt Disney World - at 5,800 companies across the nation."

great article on liberation of growing old by Anne Karpf, Jan. 3, 2015, NYT.

Case study on scaling Encore Fellowships Networks, 2013 "These include getting network members to take responsibility for the network's long-term governance and sustainability, balancing the need for network-wide coordination with the need for local flexibility, and knowing how much growth and variation the network can handle at different points in its evolution and just how much is needed to achieve the organizers' social change objectives"

article by Michele Willens, August 30, 2014 on aging baby boomers coming to terms with "being the oldest person in the room." Issues: friends are dying, joints are aching, memories are failing, financial issues with forced retirement, unemployment, children needing money and possibly a bed, dependent parents, most unpleasantness is looking around and suddenly being the oldest. Better if sense of self is not related to age

"Older, wiser and a lot of them The world is on the cusp of a staggering rise in the number of old people, and they will live longer than ever before. Over the next 20 years the global population of those aged 65 or more will almost double, from 600m to 1.1 billion. The experience of the 20th century, when greater longevity translated into more years in retirement rather than more years at work, has persuaded many observers that this shift will lead to slower economic growth and "secular stagnation", while the swelling ranks of pensioners will bust government budgets. But the notion of a sharp division between the working young and the idle old misses a new trend, the growing gap between the skilled and the unskilled. Employment rates are falling among younger unskilled people, whereas older skilled folk are working longer. The divide is most extreme in America, where well-educated baby-boomers are putting off retirement while many less-skilled younger people have dropped out of the workforce."

Jeanne McPherson is hosting a retreat for women considering life after career--sounds like Encore to me. She doesn't give away too much in her description but the format, etc. seems interesting to me.

Compelling story about baby boomers who are trying to help themselves within Neighbors-helping-Neighbors U.S.A., a volunteer networking organization with 28 chapters in New Jersey serving 1,200 unemployed, mainly white-collar, baby boomers. These baby boomers are not able to find new employment that comes close to their previous work. "What he does recommend is lowering expectations. "You're not likely to be the department head," he said, "so sell yourself as a team player who will work with younger people and help train them." "

Compelling story about baby boomers who are trying to help themselves within Neighbors-helping-Neighbors U.S.A., a volunteer networking organization with 28 chapters in New Jersey serving 1,200 unemployed, mainly white-collar, baby boomers. These baby boomers are not able to find new employment that comes close to their previous work.

article by Deborah Jacobs, on how boomers are adjusting to job less, recession impact, etc., November 16, 2011