Though the “gig economy” is a trendy phenomenon to talk about these days, the underlying truth is that short-term contract labor is, well, not new. The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that the largest brackets of those who define themselves as self-employed or working as independent contractors are the 65 and older and 55 through 64 […]
On-demand workforce assistance startup Steady has raised $9 million in a Series A funding round led by San Francisco-based Propel Venture Partners with participation from Omidyar Network, the impact investing firm established by the founder of eBay. Former NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal also contributed to the round and will be joining the team as an advisor and […]
Like a flock of pigeons on a stray piece of bread, they descended quickly and widely across Atlanta. Seemingly overnight, at the beginning of May, Bird’s dockless electric scooters appeared in midtown, downtown and other in-town neighborhoods. The Santa Monica, CA-based company hasn’t released figures on how many scooters have been placed in Atlanta or […]
The “Uberization” of society is more than a catchy tagline for the sharing economy – it’s quickly becoming America’s economic go-to formula for startups. In fact, Intuit predicts that independent contractors regularly working within the gig economy will more than double by 2020 – and between 2012 and 2015 alone, 10.3 million Americans earned income through […]