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(EEUU-Inglés) Contratación independiente y trabajos temporales

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(EEUU-Inglés) Contratación independiente y trabajos temporales

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The Issue
Scott Lincicome and Ilana Blumsack, 10/11/2022

Government policies discourage or even prohibit independent work, which is increasingly prevalent and often preferred by American workers over traditional arrangements

Almost all political discussions about the American worker address traditional employees, who work for a single employer providing regular compensation in exchange for controlling how, where, and when the employees’ work will be completed. Yet the U.S. freelancing platform Upwork estimates that at some point in 2021, about 36 percent of the American workforce engaged in independent work—in which individuals take on short‐​term, specific assignments from multiple clients, relatively free from the clients’ control or direction. These numbers swelled during the pandemic: the more than 50 million independent American workers in 2021 represented a 25 percent increase from 2019 (see Figure 1).

While independent work often conjures images of supposedly “exploited” Uber drivers and DoorDash deliverers, the reality is far different. The IRS reports, for example, that only about 8.6 percent of all independent workers are employed in gig work (i.e., online platforms that enable on‐​demand services for the consumer and a flexible work arrangement for the provider), and the most common occupations for independent workers are in marketing, communications, and computer programming. Freelance or contract work, moreover, is undertaken in almost every industry.

Much of this work is also high‐​paying: the Wall Street Journal reported in 2022 that many skilled freelancers make six‐​figure incomes, while a separate survey from that same year found that these workers can command a $1,000 per day “minimum wage” on various global freelance platforms. Yet policies seeking to discipline or even eliminate gig work usually affect these jobs too.

Furthermore, most Americans enter independent work arrangements because they prefer them to the more structured and controlled form of traditional employment, not because they have no other choice. One 2019 survey, for example, found that over 70 percent of both full‐​time and part‐​time independent workers see increased flexibility as the major reason for engaging in independent work. A separate survey from 2021 showed that nearly 90 percent of respondents were happier in independent work than in traditional jobs and that roughly three‐​quarters of independent workers are satisfied with their work, intend to remain in independent work, and are optimistic about their career future (see Figure 2). By contrast, just 11 percent of these independent workers wanted to find full‐​time traditional employment.

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