PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2019

Stories this week included Visa and PayPal moves, a look at Facebook’s Libra project and new research on gig worker pay advances, among other topics. Gig Workers and the $178B Pay Advance Potential. Gig workers are starting to receive their wages before a completed job. The PYMNTS Weekender, as always, has you covered.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2018

The gig economy. Gig and Freelance Payments. That deal also reflects the increasing importance of gig and freelance work to the larger economy — a market where payments companies are striving for bigger shares. People can earn their necessary household income exclusively through a sort of independent economy.”.

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OCTOBER 21, 2022

On-demand pay has been a topic that has been creating some buzz around the payroll industry in recent years. Gallup’s State of the Workplace: 2022 Report , low engagement from employees at the workplace costs the global economy $7.8 discussing the gig economy ?said Gig work innovation. On-demand pay. According to?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

population, which undermined central goals of the funding: to provide immediate financial relief to businesses and consumers and to stimulate a flatlining economy. Some are embracing self-service online tools such as websites that allow employees to access information about their pay, vacation time, benefits and other topics.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Coverage includes a story about how bamboo straws signal a new phase in global commerce, a new mobile payment network and Amazon’s latest push into biometrics, among many other topics and original PYMNTS research. Seventy percent of gig economy workers are still living paycheck to paycheck, despite pulling in more money than ever.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Since roughly 2014, the Chinese government has been working on the system, which is designed to be a “method to perfect the socialist market economy system, accelerating and innovating social governance,” according to a State Council notice from 2014. The most common association with the term “social credit score” is with China.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2019

The crux of the Payments and The Platform Economy Playbook is that with 162 million workers in the U.S. and Europe currently involved with the gig economy, projected to be serving 86.5 million consumers by 2021, sharing economy platforms can’t just meet customers’ needs – they also have to anticipate them.

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OCTOBER 21, 2022

On-demand pay has been a topic that has been creating some buzz around the payroll industry in recent years. Gallup’s State of the Workplace: 2022 Report , low engagement from employees at the workplace costs the global economy $7.8 discussing the gig economy ?said Gig work innovation. On-demand pay. According to?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Today’s “gig economy” is a big enough force in business that a quick Googling of the term will pull up an impressive 14.9 One of those pages is our quarterly Gig Economy Index , which takes the quarterly pulse of the gig worker. Gig workers , on the other hand, seem to like working gigs.

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APRIL 19, 2023

Unless you’ve been living in a cave like this woman , you know that business ownership is a tough gig right now — it’s nearly an Olympic sport to keep things running and moving ahead. In this economy where the banking world is reeling, you’ve got to know what’s happening in your business. It’s April.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2017

As more people flock to the gig economy, there are increasing challenges around developing and supporting benefits and/or benefits programs for these workers. The gig economy doesn’t have an infrastructure in place that supports these types of benefits, which begs the question: Whose job is it to make this a reality?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

Here’s a topic for debate. The topic was addressed in a PYMNTS interview with Terry Angelos, senior vice president and global head of FinTech at Visa and Venkatesh Saha , head of expansion (Middle East & APAC) at TransferWise. That can help gig economy workers and freelancers get paid more quickly, in their currencies of choice.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2016

This is not a new topic of conversation. Kids of parents born in the 1940s had it the best, not surprisingly, given the intersection of the Great Depression in the 1930s and the rapid expansion of the economy that followed — driven by the wholesale shift from a farm-based to a manufacturing-based economy.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The digital economy is here and, for many consumers, it has become a way of life. In a recent webinar, Karen Webster dug into this topic with Fiserv ’s Tammi Shapiro, vice president of electronic payments product strategy and management, and Paul Diegelman, vice president of electronic payments partnerships and business development.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2016

No question about it, Uber is emblematic with the ability to use technology to turbocharge the matchmaker economy. As Uber expanded its platform with new services, such as UberEATS , Uber drivers were presented with more opportunities to make money by delivering food to consumers in between gigs.

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JUNE 28, 2023

. “Once the Biden Administration began, it seems like they took some time to look into what they wanted to do with independent contractors given the proliferation of the gig economy,” noted Mark Wallin, partner in Barnes & Thornburg’s L&E, Wage and Hour, and Employment Litigation practice groups.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2017

Today, we thought we’d set the table for 2017 by reprising seven of the, ahem, more controversial topics of conversation. A large portion of them work as part of the gig economy , and many rather like it that way.

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