{"id":37547,"date":"2018-11-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glg.tempsite.space\/news\/glgs-richard-socarides-talks-gig-economy-at-web-summit-2018\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T08:43:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:43:47","slug":"glgs-richard-socarides-talks-gig-economy-at-web-summit-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/news\/glgs-richard-socarides-talks-gig-economy-at-web-summit-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"GLG\u2019s Richard Socarides Talks Gig Economy at Web Summit 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can the gig economy make the world work better? How can technology and gig platforms allow people to use what they know, love, and do best to serve a larger purpose \u2013 and get paid while doing it? Those are some of the questions posed to GLG Chief Communications Officer Richard Socarides, The Humanized Internet\u2019s Monique Morrow, Handy\u2019s Oisin Hanrahan, and VICE Canada\u2019s Anne Gaviola at the 2018 Web Summit conference in Lisbon.<\/p>\n<p>In the right hands, the gig economy has the promise of making the economy more efficient for everyone \u2013 with technology as the enabler, Socarides said. \u201cThis is really a transformational moment where we can \u2013 using technology \u2013 bring the power of human insight to professional decisions.\u201d He also referenced recent reports from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upwork.com\/i\/freelancing-in-america\/2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Upwork<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20180524005337\/en\/1.5-Million-Experts-Little-Known-Expert-Economy-Sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Civic<\/a>\u00a0as testaments to the growing share of freelance and independent contractors in the U.S. and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full video below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/M6qUB9Z_QaM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3266 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/glg-gig-economy-web-summit-2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can the gig economy make the world work better? How can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":37549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[581,579],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}