For about a third of Americans, regular hours and benefits are giving way to a patchwork of contracting, temping, and moonlighting. The way we make a living is changing.
One sign of this trend is the success of the website TaskRabbit, where so-called Taskers can pick up gigs. It’s a little bit like the peer-to-peer car services Uber or Lyft, where people use an app to hire a driver. But on TaskRabbit, you can hire people to do almost anything: from common handyman work, to organizing your closet, to holding your place in line for an iPhone 6.
This wide-range means the service has the potential to transform the way a lot of work gets done in the 19 cities where TaskRabbit operates. San Francisco is one of its top users, so KALW decided to see what a day in the life of a Tasker is really like.
