Everybody seems to be talking about the gig economy at the moment. It’s an ill-defined term but basically it means more people making their living by picking up bits of freelance work through online marketplaces.
Every so often, a survey, usually by an agency or a freelancers’ organisation, tells us that a large proportion of the US workforce (usually somewhere between 30 and 40 percent) is now self-employed and that the number will inevitably rise, possibly to 50 percent, by the end of the next decade. This has perplexed many American economists and business writers who point out that there is no evidence behind these claims and quite a lot to suggest the opposite. As Bloomberg’s Justin Fox points out, the surveys with these big numbers include anyone who has done some freelance work over a given period and would include “an 18-year-old who lives with his parents and plays…
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