THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE working for gig economy platforms has nearly tripled in England and Wales over the past five years, according to new research published by the TUC.
The research – carried out by the University of Hertfordshire with fieldwork and data collection by BritainThinks – shows that three in 20 (14.7 per cent) working adults surveyed now work via gig economy platforms at least once a week, compared to around one in 20 (5.8 per cent) in 2016 and just over two in 20 (11.8 per cent) in 2019.
That amounts to 4.4 million people in England and Wales working for gig economy platforms at least once a week.
In addition, almost a quarter (22.6 per cent) of workers have done platform work at some point, up from one in 10 (11.5 per cent) in 2016.
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