How to Use gig economy in a Sentence

gig economy

noun
  • The gig economy has made its way to the C-suite.
    — Liz Elting, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Clarke is a freelancer staying afloat in the gig economy.
    — Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
  • Dube sees scope for extending this approach to the gig economy.
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Arlen, meanwhile, has caught up to the techno-dystopian present (gig economy, manosphere, and all).
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Influencers are the poster children for the gig economy.
    — Corey Buhay, Outside, 26 Feb. 2026
  • And by the late-2000s, the gig economy was booming.
    — Katherine Fung, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Not with a retirement party and a gold watch but with a second career in the gig economy.
    — Reuven Perlman, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Ansari’s main idea was to show the gig economy, and those stuck on the lower end of the economic scale’s struggles just to say alive.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Changing course Bolainez isn't the only one in the gig economy world racing to adapt as costs climb.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2026
  • That could include joining the gig economy, taking on part-time work, or selling unused items to bring in extra cash.
    — Tania Francois, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The gig economy has diversified to seep into everything from accounting to law and even medicine.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Not long ago, such an idea would have seemed dystopian; now, that’s just the everyday gig economy whittled down to its most cruelly efficient form.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The new rules around minimum wage, with states having the flexibility to set their own thresholds could impact this growth in the gig economy.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Side hustles, or polyworking, has risen in popularity in recent years, in tandem with the growth of the gig economy.
    — The Hill, 25 July 2025
  • This is a corporate-level gig economy for innovation.
    — David Henkin, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • While Arj is off living the good life, the pair now have to scrape together enough money to survive, and the movie once again hammers home the injustices of the gig economy.
    — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Europol investigators have found that violence is now being sold as part of the gig economy and being enabled by a world that’s always online.
    — ABC News, 12 June 2026
  • Today’s debates about remote work, automation, and the gig economy would benefit from this same perspective on the meaning of work.
    — Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The rise of the gig economy is reshaping how people work, making flexibility a requirement.
    — Nancy Clark, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Wage growth for blue-collar workers in China has outpaced that of their white-collar peers for six consecutive years, in a sign of the country’s booming gig economy.
    — J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 7 June 2026
  • Though this marks a major win for many in California’s gig economy, not every participant will benefit.
    — Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The rise of the gig economy and remote work has finally broken the cubicle curse, giving us the freedom to answer emails from a mountain cabin or run a startup from a beachside bistro.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The gig economy, coined around 2009, has been advertised as flexible and independent work.
    — Manuel M. Grajeda Iii, Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Others who might face higher insurance bills include farmers and gig economy workers who don't get coverage through the workplace, Corlette said.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Asking if someone is employed, for example, might elicit a range of answers that include everything from steady work to being part of the gig economy to volunteering.
    — Gina Chua, semafor.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • China’s gig economy has absorbed many of the country’s millions of unemployed people, though experts questioned its capacity to take in new workers.
    — Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 15 June 2026
  • Such techniques have been honed in the gig economy more broadly to algorithmically set different wages for different employees doing the same work.
    — Sarita Gupta, Time, 2 June 2026
  • Colleen Thiry, director of TransUnion’s gig economy business, says the company made a point of presenting the results in a neutral way.
    — Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Rendon first heavily-supported the infamous AB 5, which sought to gut the gig economy because unions saw it as competition.
    — Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Consequently, high-earning professionals will be forced to downshift into gig economy roles, flooding the labor supply and pushing down wages across the entire economy.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2026

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