Future of Work

Historically, online platform companies have not been able to easily issue stock to those who earn income through their platforms. Signaling a potential change in rules, several major platform companies have asked the SEC for the ability to offer stock to platform earners in recent weeks.

Last week, the Future of Work Initiative and the JPMorgan Chase Institute hosted an event, “New Data and Implications for Today’s Labor Market: The JPMorgan Chase Institute and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics present on the Online Platform Economy,” highlighting and discussing two recent measures of online platform work.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics' first measure of electronically mediated work estimates 1 percent of workers use platforms--but challenges with the survey questions meant a burdensome process for researchers.

In Quartz at Work, Future of Work Initiative Fellow Natalie Foster and National Advisory Council Member David Rolf explore how the Black Car Fund serves as a real world example of how we can modernize the social contract.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release its first measure of online platform or electronically mediated work on Friday morning.

The Future of Work Initiative hosted an event to discuss the financial challenges facing independent workers and hear about innovative solutions from both the public and private sectors.

Congressman Jim Himes and Alastair Fitzpayne, Executive Director of the Future of Work Initiative, authored an op-ed in TechCrunch about ways to prepare American workers with the tools they need to succeed in a rapidly changing economy.