Common ground for independent workers

Principles for delivering a stable and flexible safety net for all types of work

New technologies and business models are fundamentally changing the economic landscape across the…

5 Things Every Politico Should Know About the Fight for $15

The Rise of Emotionally Intelligent Software

Work will be transformed by software designed to augment our empathy.

Portable Benefits Aren’t Just for On-Demand Companies

Something that needs to be said: portable benefits aren’t just for on-demand companies! While it only became clear to policy makers how out of step our current labor classifications are with how people work today when the on-demand economy offered up a whole new class of…

New software platforms are enabling real-time markets among individual actors. This is a highly diverse, fast-moving landscape of new business models and new work models. While the platforms are new, they are not the original source of change, rather the rocket fuel that is speeding structural shifts underway in the labor market for sometime. Given…

At Peers, we recently surveyed on-demand workers about issues of work and benefits and found that they want a broad spectrum of benefits, but most don’t want to be classified as employees. This paradigm is unattainable given today’s rigid and outdated employee classification system which discourages companies from providing benefits to independent…

Steven Levy: The Race to Ring Your Doorbell

DoorDash, Postmates and a slew of others want to own the last mile of delivery. It’s not just about putting more cars, bikes and boots on the road. It’s a battle royale employing logistical science, high-order math and on-demand economics to conquer a…