The Online Gig Workforce Just Reached 10 Million People
Monday, February 22nd, 2016
It's a job market revolution: an estimated 10.3 million Americans earned income through web-based platforms like Uber and Airbnb between 2012 and 2015. That’s more people than reside in the entire state of Georgia and amounts to 6.5 percent of the total U.S. workforce.
So-called gig jobs, in which a person performs a task for another individual often through web-based platforms, are often easier to land, and help generate additional income when regular earnings aren't sufficient, according to a new study by the JPMorgan Chase Institute.
