Gig workers — and the gig economy itself — are becoming an ever-more integral piece of the workaday landscape. Taking on project-based work? No longer a side hustle where the gig is one that helps a family or an individual make ends meet. Turns out...
Gig workers are increasingly embracing ad hoc project work by choice — not because due to need. Hyperwallet's Michael Ting goes behind the numbers in the latest Gig Economy Index to explain the sea change that’s underway in a world where 58 percent of gig...
How do gig workers use digital marketplaces to find work? Do they use them to find leads? And how do they facilitate payments. The new Gig Economy Index includes a data-heavy Deep Dive that highlights the features gig workers consider the most important for digital...
A tight labor market, difficult job application processes and greater shifts in professional values are all contributing to greater appeal of the gig economy. Summer Crenshaw, COO, CMO and co-founder of tilr, discusses work and how the online application is changing as a result.
Not long ago, direct sales companies — like beauty supplier Avon and health & beauty firm Amway — offered independent agents the opportunity to earn money selling their products door to door. Meanwhile, staffing agencies have provided businesses with temporary workers for decades, to cover for those...
The gig economy was once seen as a temporary holdover — an opportunity to earn supplemental income by taking on ad hoc work designing websites, doing yardwork or driving for a rideshare service as time allowed. However, based on recent data trends, that appears to...
Restaurants and bars are often bustling with visitors at night, but these spaces can sit latent and underused during the day while consumers are at work. But by welcoming in gig economy and remote workers, owners of food and beverage venues can bring in foot...
It’s the standard complaint of people when they get old. Those youngsters are just so darn lazy, unwilling to make their way in the world by working double shifts or taking on weekend jobs as their forefathers did when they built this nation with their...
Even in the digital payments world (and as more people travel more often, sometimes working freelance gigs along their journeys), the concept of home remains strong. That is providing opportunity to firms that facilitate temporary work and its wages. Peter Shore, general manager of payments services...
