From Davos to the White House: Meaningful Actions on Portable Benefits

“Basic benefits should be just as mobile as everything else is today.” - President Barack Obama, 2016 State of the Union Address

At Peers, we recently surveyed on-demand workers about issues of work and benefits and found that they want a broad spectrum of benefits, but most don’t want to be classified as employees. This paradigm is unattainable given today’s rigid and outdated employee classification system which discourages companies from providing benefits to independent…

Common ground for independent workers

Principles for delivering a stable and flexible safety net for all types of work

New technologies and business models are fundamentally changing the economic landscape across the…

Today I got my nails done for the second time since Sarah Maslin Nir’s New York Times series. (I’ve been going to the same place for years.) I asked my manicurist if she and the other workers had read the story. She said, “Yes.”

I asked how things were going there. She said that because of the story, they were given a lunch…

Negotiate Don’t Litigate

This strange bedfellows group aligning around a set of core principles to help make the new economy work for all is an important beginning of moving from problem to solution. I was proud to help convene this group starting in the summer at the Presidio Institute, and look forward to the work to be…