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The loudest arguments about artificial intelligence and labor have focused on how many jobs machines will take. WorkWhile CEO Simon Khalaf is planning around a different constraint: too few workers for the jobs employers need filled. Khalaf’s contrarian argument sees a labor shortage ahead, a...
Watch more: Monday Conversation With WorkWhile’s Simon Khalaf For a worker paid by the shift, $200 arriving tomorrow can outweigh an annual income figure that looks healthy on paper. That’s an authentic test of financial health and the one PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster put to...
Volatile gasoline prices are doing more than squeezing household budgets. Fuel costs are beginning to reshape the labor market by changing which jobs workers can afford to take and forcing employers and workforce platforms to rethink how they attract and retain hourly workers. The clearest...
Watch more: Gig Workers Want Real-Time Pay for Real-Time Costs The expansion of the gig economy has coincided with a fundamental change in how workers think about income, as wages are no longer treated as something that arrives on a schedule but as liquidity that...
DoorDash has launched a program to provide independent contractors who participate in its on-demand delivery service with assistance dealing with the rising price of gas. The program offers U.S. delivery drivers, or Dashers, 10% cash back on gas when they use the DoorDash Crimson Visa Debit Card, the...
Nearly one-third of millennials depend on transactional payouts from gig work and tips as their main source of income, replacing traditional paychecks with a piecemeal approach to earning that demands instant access to money. This finding from the PYMNTS Intelligence report “Instant Payouts: The New...
As inflation, layoffs and uneven wage growth continue to strain household budgets, millions of Americans living paycheck to paycheck are relying on side hustles and gig income to stay afloat, even as those earnings introduce new volatility into already fragile finances. The paycheck-to-paycheck economy remains...
With inflation and changing government policies prompting widespread uncertainty, 6 in 10 American workers are facing pocketbook challenges while lacking the steadiness and predictability of a salaried job. The latest installment of PYMNTS Intelligence’s “New Reality Check: The Paycheck-to-Paycheck Report” series, breaks down how...
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 (GSV) at work marketplace Upwork. “In terms of the macro, I’d say things have been...