While the pace of change may have accelerated during the pandemic, the roots of our great work unbundling go back about 40 years. (SOMMAI/Shutterstock.com)
The old social contract is broken—but what is coming next?
More workers have opted out of traditional jobs and are going independent. Research conducted by Gallup in 2019 showed that 28% of the workforce (44 million Americans) reported being self-employed at some point during a given week. Of those, 17% filed a Schedule C tax form, the highest number since the Internal Revenue Service started reporting that data.
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