Gig work and compasses a lot of different types of categories. Has it changed during the pandemic? It sounds like delivery workers achieved some incremental change in new york city. Soke, with all the stay at home orders and remote work, demand for ride hill services went down. On the other hand, there was increased demand for things like food delivery and grocery delivery.
A third of American workers do gig work. In the third part of our series, The Future of Work, learn how the pandemic helped them discover their power.
Today’s show was produced by Will Reid, edited by Jillian Weinberger, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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