Technology is fuelling a global acceleration, with our
employment landscape changing alongside it at an alarming rate. One
striking feature of the new working environment is what we commonly
refer to as 'gig economy'.
In short, gig economy describes the situation whereby temporary
positions are filled by businesses with independent workers for
short periods of time. Recent studies have predicted that by the
year 2020, 40% of workers in the United States will be engaged in
the gig economy, on these short term contracts. Australia is
certainly set to follow these movements, as is the norm with trails
blazed by our older cousins from across the pacific.
The gig economy is totally alien to traditional methods of work,
whereby fulltime contracts and permanency were the standard. No
longer are people developing their career with a single business
for a long period of time, opting instead to hop from place to
place.
