The Future Of Work

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 ...

Uber and Lyft have lost a chance to have an appeal heard by the Supreme Court. The case involves lawsuits brought against the companies by the state of California, which claimed ...

Workers are growing increasingly frustrated with the slow pace of traditional payroll and outdated biweekly pay periods, especially in today’s economic climate, where many live paycheck to paycheck. For gig ...

Jump has raised 11 million euros (about $12.2 million) to grow its platform that provides French freelancers with some of the benefits associated with traditional jobs. These benefits include French CDI ...

DailyPay will expand its earned wage access (EWA) services to the United Kingdom this fall. The solution, which will mark the company’s first expansion outside the United States, will initially be ...

Amazon plans to reduce the number of managers in each of its organizations and to require employees to work primarily in an office. The company is making these changes as part ...

DailyPay has debuted “Credit Health,” a tool to help users monitor their financial wellness. Announced Monday (Sept. 16), the offering is integrated into the earned wage access (EWA) company’s app, letting ...

Although jobless claims newly reported for the past week were only slightly higher, the psychological effect may be one where consumers are more cautious about spending. The U.S. Department of Labor ...

Earned wage access company DailyPay is rebranding its prepaid Visa card. The card, previously known as the “Friday by DailyPay Visa Prepaid Card,” will now be known as the “DailyPay Visa Prepaid Card,” and come ...

Lyft has debuted a new feature designed to help commuters stay within budget. “To make your day more predictable, we’re launching price lock, a new subscription that caps the price of ...

Lyft expanded its offerings with earned wage access for drivers and a new service for pet owners. The earned wage access offering is one of several new features for the Lyft ...

Former Google CEO and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is reportedly not a fan of remote work. Speaking to students at Stanford University, Schmidt said that Google’s offering of remote work has ...

The side hustle — and the ancillary streams of income those hustles provide — now is a lifeline in the paycheck-to-paycheck economy, across all income levels. Earlier this year, PYMNTS reported ...

The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday (July 25) that gig workers can be classified as independent contractors, ending a long legal battle in the state. The court’s ruling upheld a lower-court ...

OCN, a gig worker-focused FinTech formerly called OneCarNow, raised $86 million in equity and debt in a Series A funding round. The firm, based in Mexico, will use the new funding ...