Rest easy, gigsters: Someone is thinking about you, starting with governments around the globe that out of nowhere appear to be aware of how big of a deal gig work has become in the previous 10 years. The February 2020 Gig Economy Tracker , powered by Tipalti, analyzes recent trends and features in the mushrooming gig belt, which will involve approximately 75 million Americans before the current year-end. Put another way, which is closing a large portion of the U.S. workforce. It's also changing long-held definitions of "workday" and "payday" as gig work (and gig workers) proliferate. A great part of the gig economy talk nowadays has to do with California's Assembly Bill 5 - referred to just as AB5 - which is basically driving large gig economy players like Uber to begin treating their gig workers more like colleagues and less like extra cogs in a machine. Hiring On-Demand Consultants and Advisors as the Gig Economy Matures Gig Economy Image source