Editor's Note: Below is a brief excerpt and chart from today's Early Look written by Hedgeye Managing Director Neil Howe. Click here to learn more.
"... One is part-time workers, who have grown as a share of the workforce by about 2 percentage points since the Great Recession. Another is independent digital contractors, who—while still few in number—are surging. JPMorgan Chase finds that, as of August 2015, 1 percent of adults make money in the “online platform economy” each month (as Uber drivers, Airbnb renters, etc.)—a tenfold increase from October 2012. During the same time period, the share of Americans who report ever having worked in the online platform economy exploded 47-fold to 4.2%."
