Pretty much the equivalent of being a freelance worker today, the free agent can still work at the local coffeehouse or laundry cleaners, both of which will still be around according to Hiemstra.

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Glen Hiemstra can tell you all about stints.

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Last year Glenn Hiemstra, the founder of Futurist.com, told me this would become one of the biggest concerns for employers in terms of retaining young employees when the economy recovers, and linked that problem with the epedemic of job-hopping seen in Millennials.

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