The Future Of Work

A new PYMNTS Intelligence report suggests that the most meaningful trend in instant payments is not how fast money moves but how recipient behavior is reshaping the economics of payouts ...

A new OpenAI report found a majority of surveyed workers seeing positive results from artificial intelligence (AI). The AI startup on Monday (Dec. 8) released findings from its “State of Enterprise ...

A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate Wednesday (Dec. 3) would enable the government to gather more data to better understand the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the workforce. The ...

Physical AI is emerging as the next stage of robotics as advances in sensing, perception and large AI models give machines capabilities that traditional automation never supported. Earlier robots followed ...

Freelance services marketplace Fiverr saw growing demand for talent with specialized skills during the third quarter, driven in part by small- to medium-sized businesses’ efforts to adopt artificial intelligence, the ...

The labor market remained sluggish in the third quarter, but demand for freelance talent in areas related to artificial intelligence (AI) helped drive 2% year-over-year growth in gross services volume ...

UPS is reportedly increasing its use of gig delivery drivers as eCommerce volumes grow. As The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Wednesday (Oct. 29), these drivers use their own vehicles to deliver smaller, low-volume ...

What was once a stopgap for hard times is fast becoming a fixture of American financial planning. According to a new PYMNTS Intelligence report, “Do the (Side) Hustle: Four in 10 ...

DailyPay has appointed its executive chairman, Nelson Chai, as its new CEO. Chai succeeds Stacy Greiner, who will continue to serve as an advisor, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. ...

Businesses that use the APS human capital management (HCM) platform can now offer their employees access to on-demand pay. The capability comes from the new integration of DailyPay’s On-Demand Pay solution ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has begun sending over $6.7 million to consumers as part of its settlement with gig work company Arise Virtual Solutions. The settlement resolved the FTC’s allegations that Arise violated the FTC Act ...

Workday has selected DailyPay as its strategic partner for on-demand pay in the United States and Canada. This move strengthens an existing partnership between the two companies and will provide a ...

Money movement platform Thunes launched a partnership with payroll company Ontop. The collaboration is designed to give freelancers and remote workers real-time access to their earnings around the world, according to ...

Mastercard says it is expanding its payments partnership with Uber. The new agreement, announced Thursday (July 24), will see Uber employ several Mastercard solutions, including Mastercard Move for facilitating real-time disbursements, and Mastercard One Credential, ...

Papaya Global and Worksome have partnered to help businesses of all sizes manage and pay freelancers, contractors and gig workers globally. The collaboration brings together Papaya’s platform that helps enterprises pay ...

Würk has integrated DailyPay’s On-Demand Pay product into its payroll, human resources (HR) and compliance platform for highly regulated industries like cannabis and gaming. This integration allows the users of Würk’s ...

Traditional 9-to-5 employment, and the bi-weekly paycheck, is no longer sufficient for a significant portion of the U.S. population, leading many to pursue alternative income sources known as side hustles. ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding and foundations are hotly debated on Capitol Hill and in courtrooms. As the agency itself has been walking back, or outright canceling, its own rulemaking, ...

Borderless work requires borderless payments. The rise of the contingent workforce — including freelancers, gig workers, remote teams and cross-border hires — is pushing companies, banks and FinTechs to rethink the ...

Imagine you’re owed a payment, whether it’s a gig paycheck, an insurance claim or a loan disbursement. Now, imagine two scenarios: one where you get to choose how that money lands ...

Papaya Global launched a dedicated platform designed to help enterprises and managed service providers (MSPs) manage and pay freelancers, consultants, gig workers and independent contractors. The new Contingent OS platform provides ...

The speed of instant payments is a well-known attribute. For many large businesses, instant disbursements for nonrecurring, or ad hoc, payments are becoming a strategic tool, particularly for managing vendor relationships, ...

Consumer spending, the key engine of the economy in the United States, is in danger of stalling. The U.S. Census Bureau released retail data Thursday (May 15) showing that sales growth ...

Indiana has passed earned wage access (EWA) legislation into law. “Indiana’s HEA 1125 codifies the industry’s best practices into law, including recognizing that On-Demand Pay is a unique financial product, and ...

DailyPay will expand its On-Demand Pay platform to Canada in May. The company will make this earned wage access platform available to new and existing clients with operations in Canada, DailyPay said in ...

PYMNTS Intelligence has spotlighted the appeal of on-demand wages, as the ability to break free from the two-week pay cycle allows workers to manage cash flow and their expenses in ...

The New York State Attorney General sued earned wage access providers DailyPay and MoneyLion on Monday (April 14), accusing them of illegal and deceptive conduct and abusive lending practices. The lawsuits ...

Earned wage access company DailyPay has sued New York Attorney General Letitia James. The company’s suit, filed Monday (April 7), is aimed at stopping what DailyPay says is an attempt by ...

With the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, return to office has become the dominant work mode. According to PYMNTS Intelligence survey data from January 2025, about 80% of employed consumers now ...

Even before the pandemic, PYMNTS noted that 32% of workers participated in the gig economy in some way, either to supplement their incomes, or to cobble together revenue streams that ...

Payments and financial services tech firm Fiserv finalized its purchase of Payfare. The completed deal makes the founders and employees of earned wage access (EWA) provider Payfare part of the Fiserv ...

Fiverr’s fourth-quarter earnings results, released Wednesday (Feb. 19), showed traction in the company’s services business, which includes subscription-based revenues, cementing freelancers’ relationships with buyers over several months. However, a muted macro ...

As criticism of traditional biweekly and monthly payroll systems increases, workers in gig, freelance and contract roles are more vocal about the financial strain caused by delayed payments. This has sparked ...

Gig workers and other independent contractors can take collective action seeking better compensation and job conditions without being challenged by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the regulator said Tuesday (Jan. ...

Earned wage access platform DailyPay has tapped Uber’s former CFO to lead its board of directors. In a Wednesday (Jan. 8) press release, DailyPay announced Nelson Chai will be ...

Earned wage access (EWA) is expanding platforms, including the eCommerce and ridesharing mainstays that rely on drivers for deliveries and trips, and the FinTech providers that offer enterprises new financial ...

Both Walmart and FinTech company Branch said Monday (Dec. 23) that they will defend themselves “vigorously” against a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) lawsuit filed against the companies. The CFPB sued ...

Payments and financial services technology company Fiserv is acquiring earned wage access (EWA) provider Payfare. “This acquisition complements the embedded finance solutions of Fiserv with card program management, a white-label consumer app, and a ...

What do gig workers and gamers have in common? Both are driving a seismic shift in how businesses manage payments — and instant is the name of the game. For ad ...

Uber reportedly told New York City’s taxi regulator that proposed changes to commercial auto insurance requirements may leave drivers unable to insure their vehicles. The company submitted written comments ahead of ...

The success of the gig economy hinges on its underlying digital ecosystem, particularly APIs, which power real-time services like Uber and Fiverr. But APIs are vulnerable to misuse, with advanced threats ...

Ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies is suggesting a pay cut for its drivers in New York City, citing lower gas prices, as it tries to lower the price of rides in ...

Fiverr shares rocketed ahead by roughly 30% on Wednesday morning (Oct. 30) after third-quarter results highlighted that programs geared toward encouraging buyers to spend more — as they seek freelancers ...

DailyPay added an international remittance feature to its platform. The new addition is powered by the financial technology solution ReadyRemit by Brightwell and Visa Direct. It lets users send money to ...

As we head into the fourth quarter of arguably the most innovative year in payments since the pandemic, the liberation of capital is emerging as the story of the year. Money ...