A new study from Intuit, “Dispatches from the New Economy: The company has approximately 7,700 employees with major offices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India and other locations. The Rise of the Self-Employed,” finds that in 2013, more than half a million Americans were self-employed and working for themselves, up from about one million five years earlier. The typical work week includes a mixture of: on-demand work such as Uber driving (34%), a traditional full or part-time job (30%), contracting and consulting (19%), and running a business such as renting a room on Airbnb (14%).
A new study from Intuit, “Dispatches from the New Economy: The Rise of the Self-Employed,” finds that in 2013, more than half a million Americans were self-employed and working for themselves, up from about one million five years earlier. The typical work week includes a mixture of: on-demand work such as Uber driving (34%), a traditional full or part-time job (30%), contracting and consulting (19%), and running a business such as renting a room on Airbnb (14%).