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Amid Tech Layoffs, Gig Workers May Be More Resilient Than Their Salaried Counterparts

Por: Forbes Business February 17, 2023

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Given recent mass layoffs in the tech industry, we thought it would be worth taking a closer look at the tech industry-based gig workers we’d studied in our recent U.S. Gig Economy , to get a sense of how their outlook differed from regularly employed (then suddenly unemployed) IT industry workers. About 10 percent of the freelancers we’d surveyed were IT workers. In the first month and half of 2023, over tech workers have been laid off,... + full article



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