Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the Future of Work

economy, legal issues were making the business model look riskier.

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.

Participation in gig economy platforms had been falling since June 2014,

Based on the pricing model data, BuzzFeed determined that gas, insurance, and other costs of doing business amounted to about 22% of full-time drivers’ gross pay in Denver, 24% in Houston, and 31% in Detroit.

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

second, that they involved a choice.

the potential to chop up a broad array of traditional jobs into discrete tasks that can be assigned to people just when they’re needed, with wages set by a dynamic measurement of supply and demand,

training, motivation, and consistency of service—

delivering flexibility—without fixing the support structures