quit. As the company lowered rates, a bigger and bigger portion of their per-mile earnings was automatically deducted from their checks to pay for the car they’d acquired to do the job.

They broke work into parcels, automatically coordinated

Even helped employees with unpredictable schedules plan for the uneven income.

In some industries, the gig economy serves as a stop-gap technology, with companies employing people in the cheapest way possible until, eventually, it becomes cheaper to buy a machine.

flexibility is tailored to and dependent on demand as well as on the viability of base rates.”

and the majority are doing it full-time because they need the money.”

Between 2005 and 2015, worker contributions to employer-sponsored plans on average increased 83%.

70% of US workers say they are not engaged in their work.

89% of private industry workers in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ highest wage category had access to retirement benefits, compared to 32% of workers in the lowest wage category.