by dankeelan | Oct 17, 2023 | Gig Workers, Healthcare
Shawnika Howell has been a nurse for 13 years, primarily in long-term care, but around the time of the winter 2021 COVID-19 surge, she decided to find some extra work through something new: an app called Clipboard. The app lets nurses and nurse aides book...
by dankeelan | Oct 17, 2023 | Featured, Gig Workers, Insurance
Insurance is vital for gig workers because they lack consistent employer-provided benefits. The gig economy refers to a labor market characterized by the prevalence of short-term contracts or freelance work, as opposed to permanent jobs. In this economy, workers are...
by dankeelan | Oct 10, 2023 | Age, Featured, Gig Workers
Many younger Americans are quitting their full-time roles and taking up gig work to make ends meet. A higher percentage of Gen Z and millennial workers are making $2,500 or more a month in gig work when compared to Gen X and baby boomers in similar...
by dankeelan | Oct 10, 2023 | Gig Workers, Healthcare
Shawnika Howell has been a nurse for 13 years, primarily in long-term care, but around the time of the winter 2021 COVID-19 surge, she decided to find some extra work through something new: an app called Clipboard. The app lets nurses and nurse aides book individual...
by dankeelan | Oct 10, 2023 | Featured, Gig Workers
As the so-called gig economy continues to grow, so do questions about how this type of nontraditional work compares to full-time work arrangements and how these new relationships differ and impact performance and commitment. Researchers from the University of New...
by dankeelan | Oct 3, 2023 | Gender, Gig Workers
Cleaners, couriers and cabbies from around the world are creating new apps to better balance their gig work with the chores of motherhood and marriage, skirting sexist algorithms that penalise women who put home before work. From Brazil to South Africa, female gig...
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