Boston Globe: Making gig drivers employees could result in major job loss, study finds
Excerpt: Uber and other gig-economy companies are forced to make Massachusetts drivers employees, and they then require drivers to work at least 20 hours a week on average, between 49,000 and 74,000 job opportunities across four major ride-hailing and food-delivery platforms could be lost, a drop of 58 to 87 percent, according to a study […]
Pew Research Center: The State of Gig Work in 2021
16% of Americans have ever earned money from an online gig platform. Excerpt from Pew Research Center: Nontraditional, short-term and contract work existed prior to the internet and smartphones, but the gig economy has ushered in a new way of connecting people with consumers and those who want to hire them. Indeed, the emergence of […]
