The Gig Economy Is Just Part of the Unsettling New World of Work
- All net new work since 2005 is in ‘alternative arrangements’
- Flexibility for some is loss of security, benefits for others
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Forget about a secure future: Today’s jobs don’t even offer a secure present.
The era of one-company careers is largely gone, and now the latest shift in labor markets is piling on the anxiety for many who do manage to get hired. They’re likely to land in an arrangement that falls short of what jobs used to be like. Driving cars for Uber is the poster-child for this alternative work, but it extends across the spectrum, from contract graphic design to on-call lab technicians to factory hands hired through agencies.