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Part-Time Lovers 5


TIME WAS, IF YOU PLAYED A GIG, you were a musician. But now? Gigs — part-time jobs with precious little security and no benefits — comprise a burgeoning sector of the working world. This does not come without cost. Here’s a statistical look at what the “gig economy” means to you


by Steve Brearton


Order of magnitude by which those with insecure jobs are more likely to be depressed, according to a 2012 University of Michigan study. A 2017 Ontario Federation of Labour poll had 31% of precarious workers in Canada citing emotional health as the greatest negative impact


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More than 1 in 4 Workers in the global workforce


classified as freelance by HR firm Randstad. According to another 2016 poll, 24% of the firms say the prime reason for embracing “flexible staffing” is cost reduction


12 Canada’s rank among 50 OECD


nations in 2015 for part-time employees among all workers. The percentage was 18.9%, compared with 12.5% in 1976


45 Percentage of Canadian workers


who will be freelance, independent contractors or on-demand workers by 2020, according to a 2017 study released by the software company Intuit Canada


55 Percentage of workers who work


for online services because there are no other employment options


60 Percentage of employment growth


in the OECD since the mid-’90s accounted for by “non-standard work”


153,700 Net increase in part-time jobs in


Canada in 2016. Part-time work grew at a rate two-and-a-half times greater than the 60,400 full-time jobs created — a number Statistics Canada called “statistically insignificant”


959,000 Canadians working in at least two


jobs in 2015, according to Statistics Canada. Between 1976 and 2015, the number of multiple jobholders rose from 2.2% of the workforce to 5.3%. Most are women


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