2016 Amway Global Entrepreneurship Report highlights changing work environment
The seventh annual Amway Global Entrepreneurship Report (AGER) measures the public pulse of self-employment around the world. The 2016 study finds 77 percent of respondents have a positive attitude toward entrepreneurship. This consistently high interest in self-employment may explain the increasing importance of global trends like the gig economy—also known as the sharing economy, on-demand economy, peer-to-peer economy, freelance nation, etc. By any name, the trend of individuals seeking to work independent from an employer with greater flexibility is on the rise. The AGER results support this trend, with 39 percent of respondents worldwide seeing self-employment more likely in five years than today and 56 percent feeling comfortable searching for and acquiring customers—a key element of self-employment. These results seem to be indicators of a changing world of work.