Why Gig Work isn’t Ready for Full Time: 60 Second Stories

Caden Rosenbaum
| 29th Sep 2023

There is a tendency to think of app-based gig work as an easy alternative to traditional employment. But as many anonymous gig workers have posted on Reddit, stories of misplaced liability, danger, and unsustainability abound. Not to mention the lack of employment-style benefits, which greatly affects quality of life for those making this their full time gig.

In this 60-Second Story, Tessa Bagley highlights a few of those anonymous stories and points to our portable benefit solution as a way to solve these issues without jeopardizing work in the gig economy.

About the author

Caden Rosenbaum

Caden Rosenbaum serves as the senior policy analyst leading the tech and innovation policy portfolio. As an attorney with experience analyzing laws and regulations, as well as advocating for substantive reform, his work contributed to the passage of the nation’s first portable benefit law, allowing companies to offer meaningful work-related benefits to gig workers in Utah. Caden’s diverse background in technology, innovation, and workforce policy includes many years working in Washington, DC alongside some of the country’s brightest minds at organizations like TechFreedom and the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University. Caden enjoys spending time with his wife, tending to his strawberry garden, and competing online in VR table tennis matches.