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Podcast: Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast
Episode: 16 Freelancing Stats You Need to Know
Description: A number of reports and studies regarding the freelance world, AKA the ‘gig economy’ have been published lately so I wanted to summarize the key statistics found in the data. 50%: of the workforce will be comprised of gig workers by 2028. Source: PYMNTS.com The 57 million Americans who freelanced this year represent 35% of the U.S. workforce and an increase of 4 million freelancers since 2014. SOURCE: Upwork 16 Million: number of Americans who consider themselves self-employed as of July 2019. Source: PYMNTS.com 1 in 6 enterprise workers are actually gig workers paid as either 1099-MISC (1099-M) workers or short-term W-2 employees working one to si...