“… times change and what once perceived as a threat to the traditional employer-employee relationship and morphed into what some refer to as the “gig economy” — think Uber, Lyft, Amazon Mechanical Turk marketplace, and other ‘gigs.’ The topline results from the latest C&AWA report is that the gig economy is not as prevalent as is often reported by the media, which is quite understandable as the country is at record low unemployment levels with employers often scrabbling for workers.”
Adecco also breaks down the numbers of the June Jobs report with some helpful infographics in this blog post about their main takeaways.
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Is the “gig economy” as booming as it seems? It depends how we define contingent work and temporary help workers.