May 04, 2021
Rideshares Lyft Amid Reopenings — Bodes Well For Uber
Lyft and Uber are becoming — as time goes on — significantly different companies. Lyft, it might be said, has stuck to its core knitting of ridesharing, while Uber has...
April 09, 2021
New Gig App Provider Ranking Does Its Job Tracking New...
Unemployment claims are up one week, down the next in the topsy-turvy world after COVID-19. Where does that leave gig workers? In the driver’s seat, as this update to PYMNTS’...
March 16, 2021
Scoring Side Hustles In Latest Gig App Provider Ranking
Initial unemployment claims are dropping in March, according to the Department of Labor, and that is most welcome news. Some folks don’t wait around for big swings in the grand...
February 10, 2021
Gig Apps Break A Sweat In New Provider Ranking
Looking for work? Many are. They turn in battalions to gig apps that consolidate job listings, create marketplace-style bidding for services, and go far beyond into payments and everything the...
February 10, 2021
Lyft Plays It Safe In Q4 Earnings, Holds Back On...
While its rival Uber continues to diversify, Lyft is playing it safe as the pandemic continues to hobble travel and mobility. The company announced its quarter and fiscal year-end financial...
January 07, 2021
Gig Apps Enabling Crucial Workforce Connections In 2021
In the humming world of gig apps, three variations dominate. There’s the platform model, where contractors create profiles and upload portfolios; we’ve got the on-demand type (think restaurant mobile order-ahead...
December 18, 2020
Gig Apps Keeping Working Through Pandemic
America’s job market was firing on all cylinders, until suddenly it wasn’t. Now it’s 10 months gone to COVID — along with a few million jobs — and folks are...
November 11, 2020
Lyft Moving Into Delivery Sector As Rideshares Stay Flat
Following a successful pilot program, Lyft is launching a delivery service to stay afloat as a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to stifle the rideshare industry, according to...
November 10, 2020
Gig Apps Space Heating Up As Vaccine Rumors Swirl
The PYMNTS Gig Economy Index has found that while 84 percent of gig workers would do more work if they were paid faster, 17 percent of gig workers lost up...
