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Work today doesn’t look like it did fifty years ago — or even ten years ago. Aside from the ways in which more powerful technology is affecting our work, more and more people are going freelance or working remote. The number of <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/21/pf/jobs/working-from-home/index.html" target="_blank">full-time remote workers is up 115%</a> over the last ten years, and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/us/remote-workers-work-from-home.html" target="_blank">43% of Americans</a> said they worked from home at least part of the time in 2016. When it comes to freelancers, <a href="https://www.bbbtrusted.org/blog/2017/08/rise-freelance-workers/" target="_blank">recent estimates put them at 35%</a> of the U.S. workforce, with a strong upward trend over the last several years.