The rise of the gig economy is akin to a “tsunami that is not too far from crashing on the beachfront,” Joseph Murgo, executive lead at Anthem, said recently at EBN’s Benefits Forum & Expo in Boca Raton, Fla.
The American economy is becoming more dependent on this workforce, he explained, leading to a “seismic change and reconfiguration.” As a result, employers need to ready themselves to provide benefits to this demographic, but first need to understand more about what motivates them.