Because of expanding wealth gap, more than 3 million new jobs were created serving the rich mainly in large urban areas. The question is: is this another category of gig economy jobs? Since most of these jobs have no long term benefits, how will that reflect on this generation’s retirement prospects? Associated Press is trying to give us some of the answers.

BY MAUREEN HARRINGTON—GLASSDOOR3 MINUTE READ Article copied from https://www.fastcompany.com/90379491/how-gig-economy-work-has-evolved “Gig.” You’ve heard it mentioned at afterwork drinks, debated on employment sites, and beaten to death by pundits. It may have a new name now, but gigs have been around as long as humans have been paid for “services rendered.” What we now call gigs used to be referred to as part-time, freelance, or consulting. Gigs can be full- or part-time, or even one-off projects. There are gigs to be found at the highest professional levels and in the minimum wage “service on-demand” sector. The essential qualifier is that workers are not employees with benefits but independent…

Taken from https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/24/google-work-from-home-jobs-filters/ The Servant Economy Ten years after Uber inaugurated a new era for Silicon Valley, we checked back in on 105 on-demand businesses. ALEXIS C. MADRIGAL In March 2009, Uber was born. Over the next few years, the company became not just a disruptive, controversial transportation company, but a model for dozens of venture-funded companies. Its name became a shorthand for this new kind of business: Uber for laundry; Uber for groceries; Uber for dog walking; Uber for (checks notes) cookies. Larger transformations swirled around—the gig economy, the on-demand economy—but the trend was most easily summed up by the way so many starry-eyed…

Article taken from The Atlantic Is the company destroying full-time work, entrenching us in part-time purgatory, or empowering America’s most independent workers? In the last few years, Uber has gone through a life cycle that once took successful companies decades to complete—from start-up to upstart, from pushy disruptor to pushy behemoth, from iPhone button to cultural icon. Uber’s executives don’t like to associate themselves with the “sharing economy,” the smattering of firms that allow average Joes to sell access to their fallow goods and services (rent my empty home on Airbnb, buy my open 3 p.m. hour on TaskRabbit). The…