The US gig economy will outpace all job creation by 2025
Part-time employment in the U.S. will soon grow faster than all other jobs, according to a new report.
The study, published Friday by TrueBlue and labor-market analytics company Emsi, found that temporary employment has grown steadily over the last several years, as the U.S. recovered from the 2008 financial crisis.
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Between 2012 and 2019, the U.S. economy added 480,000 gig jobs as companies looked for more flexible workers -- and as workers, in turn, tried to exert greater control over when and where they worked.
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“How companies and people look at work is different today, likely inspired by the memories of a casualty ridden recession, and the emergence of new technologies that make it easy to connect in real-time for on-demand employment needs,” Patrick Beharelle, CEO of TrueBlue, said in a statement.
Workers over the age of 35 account for the largest percentage of temporary workers, but nearly 1 in 5 are older than 55 (or about 18 percent). The study also found that 42 percent of individuals picking up temporary work take on at least two jobs per week; most respondents said they started a part-time job in order to earn extra money, though some said it was to get their foot in the door with a company.
These will be the fastest-growing temporary occupations from 2019 to 2025, the report found:
- Laborers and freight, stock and material movers, hand: 598,077 jobs, adding 53,627 new positions
- Helpers - production workers: 120,900 jobs, adding 24,709 positions
- Industrial truck and tractor operators: 62,958 jobs, adding 5,529 positions
- Human resources specialists: 60,156 jobs, adding 5,410 new positions
- Stock clerks and order fillers: 52,613 jobs, adding 4,662 new positions
- Office clerks: 123,016 jobs, adding 4,612 new positions
- Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders: 51,356 jobs, adding 4,513 new positions
- Registered nurses: 49,637 jobs, adding 4,482 new positions
- Construction workers: 49,120 jobs, adding 4,353 new positions
- Substitute teachers: 44,375 jobs, adding 4,056 new positions
- Janitors and cleaners (not including maids and housekeeping cleaners): 44,807 jobs, adding 3,994 new positions
- Customer service representatives: 95,475 jobs, adding 3,729 new positions
- Software developers and applications: 24,150 jobs, adding 3,248 new positions
