Side hustles are at an 8-year low, and the extra income they bring is becoming a nice-to-have rather than a necessity. What changed?

In March 2025, the Urban Company — an app service based in India — published the following advertisement: Your maid left you hanging? We leave your home spotless! InstaMaids at your service in 15 ...

Without a steady wage, saving often feels like an uphill battle. Still, there are practical ways to build financial stability even when your paydays aren’t guaranteed, and saving on an irregular ...

The gig economy is not a 'success story.' It is a story of survival — of Filipinos filling the cracks left by a state that has failed to create decent jobs.

Many real estate investors don’t set out to build rental businesses. Rather, they stumble into them. Think of the Gen Xer who just inherited their parent’s home, the professional who’s moving out of ...

Alex Lazovsky is a General Partner at Palo Alto Growth Capital, a VC firm based in Palo Alto, California—the heart of Silicon Valley. Imagine a future freelancer leasing out a slice of their own mind ...

T he biggest workforce in the world has undergone an extraordinary transformation. China’s farm labourers and industrial ...

Urban Company’s DNA is changing from ‘service’ to ‘consumer’. What are the implications as it readies for life as a listed ...

Introduction The gig economy is a promising arena to reduce unemployment and provide other benefits such as the opportunity to earn supplemental income. Like all other forms of work, the gig space ...