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    Social Media and the Workplace

    Workers turn to social media for a range of reasons while at work, with taking a mental break and connecting with friends and family being among the most common.

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    Arun Sundararajan

    Q&A: The impact and evolution of the sharing economy

    We interviewed Arun Sundararajan, a professor of information, operations and management sciences at New York University, and a leading expert on the sharing economy. Sundararajan is the author of the recently released book “The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism.”

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    What is the 'sharing economy'?

    How Americans define the sharing economy

    In our survey, we asked respondents who had heard of the sharing economy to tell us – in their own words – how they would describe the term.

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    72% of Americans have used some type of shared or on-demand online service

    Americans and the new digital economy: 8 key findings

    Digital technology has ushered in a slew of new shared, collaborative and on-demand online services ranging from virtual marketplaces to home sharing. Our report examines the scope and impact of these services.

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    Room to grow: Internet access and smartphone ownership in India

    Global tech companies see India’s vast offline population as untapped market

    Only about a fifth of India’s roughly 1.2 billion people are online, according to a recent Pew Research Center report, and the world’s biggest technology companies are clamoring for this large, untapped user base. Facebook recently tried (and failed) to implement its “Free Basics” internet program, and Google is also vying for the vast Indian […]

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    How will the Internet of Things look by 2025?

    Lee Rainie will present findings from Pew Research Center’s report titled “The Internet of Things Will Thrive by 2025” to the American Bar Association Section of Science & Technology law on March 30, 2016.

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    Focus group participants' reasons for learning

    Incentives – and pressures – for U.S. workers in a ‘knowledge economy’

    As automation looms and more and more jobs are being shaped to accommodate the tech-saturated “knowledge economy,” 63% of full- and part-time workers say they have taken steps in the past 12 months to upgrade their skills and knowledge. That is one of several key findings from a Pew Research Center survey conducted last fall […]

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    Technology Adoption by Baby Boomers (and everybody else)

    Innovation and technology go hand in hand in developing the vision and strategy for the business solutions these leaders employ to engage current and new customers (boomers and beyond), and to establish new business models. Lee Rainie and Andrew Perrin present what works and what doesn’t when innovating in large public and nonprofit organizations at the Boomer Summit in Washington.