We may well be entering a new age of work, in which tasks can be sliced into bite-sized chunks and allotted online to freelancers all over the planet. But we’re not quite there yet, according to a new survey conducted for MBO Partners, which provides back-office services to independent workers — which it dubs “solopreneurs.” Independent workers still get the vast majority of their assignments through the old-fashioned channel of word of mouth, and this is even more pronounced for the most successful among them: