{"id":16110,"date":"2020-02-10T13:58:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T18:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=16110"},"modified":"2020-02-10T13:58:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T18:58:48","slug":"the-gig-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=16110","title":{"rendered":"The Gig Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tjmccue\/2018\/08\/31\/57-million-u-s-workers-are-part-of-the-gig-economy\/#7e876ea17118\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tjmccue\/2018\/08\/31\/57-million-u-s-workers-are-part-of-the-gig-economy\/#7e876ea17118<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <em>More than one third (36 percent) of U.S. workers are in the gig economy, which works out to a very large number of approximately 57 million people. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Gallup estimates \u201cthat\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Ftjmccue%2F2018%2F08%2F31%2F57-million-u-s-workers-are-part-of-the-gig-economy%2F&amp;text=29%25%20of%20all%20workers%20in%20the%20U.S.%20have%20an%20alternative%20work%20arrangement%20as%20their%20primary%20job.\" target=\"_blank\">29% of all workers in the U.S. have an alternative work arrangement as their primary job.<\/a>\u00a0This includes a quarter of all full-time workers (24%) and half of all part-time workers (49%). Including multiple job holders, 36% have a gig work arrangement in some capacity.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>There are two types of gig workers. There are \u201cindependent\u201d and \u201ccontingent\u201d workers, the former being people who are truly their own \u201cboss\u201d, and the latter being the group that work for another company just like a regular employee might, minus the security and all the other benefits that come with being a full-fledged employee<\/em> (me: not to mention union representation).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tjmccue\/2018\/08\/31\/57-million-u-s-workers-are-part-of-the-gig-economy\/#7e876ea17118 More than one third (36 percent) of U.S. workers are in the gig economy, which works out to a very large number of approximately 57 million people. Gallup estimates \u201cthat\u00a029% of all workers in the U.S. have an alternative &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=16110\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16111,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16110\/revisions\/16111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}