Archive for October 2015

But that total is well shy of a projection made earlier this week in an MBO Partners independent labor report, which estimates the domestic economy holds 30.2 million independent workers who are at least 21 years old. The country’s independent workforce has ballooned 12 percent in the last five years alone, according to the report…

A study conducted by MBO Partners looked at a variety of professions and noticed that a sizable section of the independent workforce are young workers, who are taking “gigs” with startups such as ride-sharing giant Uber or delivery services like Instacart, reported Agence France Presse.

Despite fears that independent workers would return to “traditional” employment as the economy recovered from the Great Recession, the independent population continues to grow — nearly twice as fast as U.S. employment, according to MBO Partners 2015 State of Independence in America, the industry’s only comprehensive dive into five years of independent workforce data.

MBO Partners announced Tuesday the release of its fifth annual “State of Independence in America 2015” report. MBO provides a detailed survey-based perspective on what it defines as the “independent workforce.”