Like a coin, there’re two sides to it.
Anyways, that’s the gig economy. In China, data is incomplete (to say the least) as regards to the size of the gig economy. We have no idea, for example, how many people make a living freelancing or doing one part time job or holding two or more at the same time. I have no idea at all. I don’t even have a ballpark figure or rough estimate.
In Britain or America, though, the picture is less muddled. In America, for instance, one survey showed that more people than ever are choosing to freelance – 55 million in 2016, or 35% of the total U.S. workforce (Freelancing in America 2016, Upwork.com, October 6, 2016).
That’s a lot, isn’t it?
I guess aside from people who have to gig because they cannot find full-time or long-term employment, more and more skilled people who relatively well-off are moving into the gig or sharing or on-demand economy – for the freedom or flexibility that’s in it.
Well, no more ado, let’s read a few recent media examples for find out more about the “gig economy”, a relatively new terminology reflecting on the new on-demand free-lancing job trends:
1. The Uber life isn’t an easy ride for all in the “gig” economy.
Most of the estimated 68 million gig workers choose the freelance lifestyle for better work-life balance. But nearly 20 million of them do it out of necessity because they can’t find better work or pay, according to a report by McKinsey Global Institute, a consulting firm.
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