Everyone’s talking about the “gig economy”—and a growing number of people work in it. The term might seem like something new, but it really isn’t. Before apps brought the idea of on-demand services and gig work to everybody’s phone, the gig economy was sometimes called the freelance economy, agile workforce, or even temporary work.According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the gig economy is a workforce based on "single projects or task[s] for which a worker is hired, often through a digital marketplace, to work on demand."

The New Yorker calls the gig economy the "on-demand, peer, or platform economy." Embodied by companies like Uber, TaskRabbit, Airbnb, Handy, Thumbtack, and Fiverr, the gig economy operates by offering marketplaces based on ratings and payment systems routed through apps.

It may also seem like everyone has a side hustle these days. Or that people have quit their high-powered day jobs for gig economy jobs that pay just as well but with less stress. And, while some people have successfully transitioned from 9-to-5er to gigger, the truth is, the gig economy isn’t just on-demand work.
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Musicians often refer to performing at a place as taking on a “gig.” The gig economy works much the same way (without the need to carry a tune). Instead of a traditional, in-office, full-time job with a single company, gig workers work as short-term, temporary, or independent contractors for one or a variety of employers (though they are not employers in the traditional sense).

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