Who Are the Gig Workers? Reports Offer Some Clues

As employee classification and portable benefit programs continue to be hot issues across the country, two new reports may shed more light on who gig workers are and what they want. The Society of Human Resource Management and SAP SuccessFactors, an HR technology company, researched a group they called “external workers” and found that many common perceptions regarding them were not true. For example, although many may believe that people become external workers because they can’t find a steady, full-time job, 74% of those who participated in a survey said that’s not ...