With the partial shutdown in the Federal government now in its 33rd day, furloughed workers are freelancing with Uber, the ride-hailing company, to shore up cash. During an interview with CNBC Wednesday (Jan. 23), Uber Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi said because of the low barrier to...
As 2018 came to a close, unemployment was at historic lows — thanks in part to growth in the gig economy. In Q3 2018, the portion of gig workers in the U.S. workforce rose to 35.6 percent, up from 32.2 percent in Q3 2017 and...
On-demand staffing platform Wonolo has announced a partnership with Waze Carpool to provide carpooling services for Wonolo’s community of more than 300,000 local gig workers. The partnership, which comes after Wonolo’s $32 million Series C funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures, is rolling out...
While the holiday season is officially known as the most wonderful time of the year, for the majority of American consumers, it is also the most stressful. While the holiday season is officially known as the most wonderful time of the year, for the majority...
The gig economy has been getting no shortage of attention. In the last few years, a nearly uncountable number of articles and editorials have been written, exploring the concept of whether gig work is the future of labor. The attention is not unwarranted — a fact confirmed...
It’s probably getting to the point that everyone who doesn’t have gig work — offering ride shares via personal vehicles, for instance, or doing other freelance jobs found via digital marketplaces — probably knows someone who does. After all, according to the PYMNTS/Hyperwallet Gig Economy...
Before CEO Toffer Grant founded PEX, he worked in the world of prepaid cards (gift cards in particular), where Christmas was the biggest challenge of every year. Gift card use would faithfully and intensely spike around Christmas, only to settle back to a more typical baseline six to eight...
In the pre-mobile world, in the time before the Uberization of every conceivable service, the gig economy existed — just not in the highly organized and monetized fashion as it is today. In fact, Head Blockchain Engineer Stan James at decentralized blockchain marketplace provider Origin told...
It’s probably getting to the point that everyone who doesn’t have gig work — offering rideshares via personal vehicles, for instance, or doing other freelance jobs found via digital marketplaces — probably knows someone who does. And it’s also getting to the point that at...
