Last summer, I wrote about how 57 Million U.S. Workers Are Part Of The Gig Economy. That is a lot of the U.S. employee base basically doing a side hustle of some sort, a part time or maybe even full time gig or project as a freelancer. I think that is a big deal. It says a lot about our entrepreneurial energy, about our economy, about a number of things, but I find it amazing all the way around.
In that post, I cited Steve King and how the gig economy is booming. Steve is the owner of Emergent Research, and creator of the Small Business Labs blog, and is one of the top researchers and reporters on the gig economy. If you are studying the idea of joining the gig economy as a side hustle, or as a startup, I link to a few of his posts on the subject in the 57 Million Workers post.
More than one third (36 percent) of U.S. workers are in the gig economy, which works out to a very large number of approximately 57 million people.
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