Data and Research on Talent, Agencies, and Growth
-
Searches for AI-Agent Freelancers Jumped 18,347% in Six Months
Businesses are moving from experimenting with AI to trying to make it perform actual work. That shift is creating demand for people…
Read → -
AI Boosted Beginner Productivity 30%, Twice the Overall Gain
One of the largest real-world studies of generative AI at work found that the biggest productivity gains did not go to the…
Read → -
AI-Exposed Entry-Level Jobs Are 7× More Likely to Demand Senior Skills
Entry-level jobs are supposed to be where people learn the skills they will need later in their careers. New hiring data suggests…
Read → -
Freelance Writing and Translation Demand Fell 20% to 50% After ChatGPT
The first clear labor-market effects of generative AI are not appearing evenly across freelance work. Research covering more than three million job…
Read → -
AI Freelancers Earn 34% More Per Hour, but Basic AI Work Is Getting Cheaper
AI-related freelance work carries a sizable hourly premium, but that headline hides an important divide. The simplest AI tasks are becoming cheaper…
Read → -
67% of Gen Z Say One Income Isn’t Enough for Financial Security
For a growing share of young workers, financial security no longer means finding one good salary. It means making sure one employer,…
Read → -
58% of Full-Time Knowledge Workers Are Considering Freelancing
Interest in freelancing among skilled employees jumped from 36% to 58% in a year. That does not mean most are preparing to…
Read → -
49% of Full-Time Workers Rely on Freelancers to Fill Critical Skill Gaps
Nearly half of full-time employees in one workforce study said freelancers help fill important gaps in the work around them. The bigger…
Read → -
87% of Skilled Freelancers Learned a New Skill in Just Six Months
Freelancers are learning constantly, but often without a training budget, learning department or employer paying for the time. As skills change faster,…
Read → -
67% of Top AI Performers Trust AI More Than Their Coworkers
The most productive AI users are not simply getting more work done. Many are starting to prefer AI as a source of…
Read → -
66% of Clients Trust Human + AI Work. Only 26% Trust AI Alone.
Clients are increasingly comfortable with professionals using AI. What they are far less comfortable with is removing the professional from the process…
Read → -
Jobs Fixing AI-Generated Work Are Up 70% in a Year
A new category of freelance work is growing around something AI was supposed to reduce: cleanup. Businesses are increasingly hiring developers, designers…
Read → -
57% of Employees Hide Their AI Use at Work
Companies have spent the past few years encouraging employees to experiment with AI. A surprisingly large share of those employees would rather…
Read → -
Retail Technology Solutions Market Report 2026
Retail technology used to be easier to describe. A retailer had a point-of-sale system, inventory software, an ecommerce website, maybe a CRM,…
Read → -
62% of Freelancers Struggle with Inconsistent Work
Freelancing gives people more control over where they work, which clients they work with and how they structure their careers. It also…
Read → -
58% of Freelancers Still Face Non-Payment Issues
Doing the work is only half of a freelance transaction. The other half is getting paid for it, in full and when…
Read → -
India’s Gig and Freelance Economy
India is clearly becoming a larger market for independent, gig and platform-based work. What is less clear is exactly how many of…
Read → -
The U.S. Freelance Economy: What the Data Actually Shows
Freelancing is a substantial part of the U.S. labour market, but the numbers used to describe it can look surprisingly different. One…
Read → -
The Global Rise of Freelancing
Freelancing is clearly becoming a bigger part of how people work and how companies hire, but putting one clean global number on…
Read → -
Freelance Platforms Market Report 2026
Freelance platforms are often discussed as though they form one simple market. They do not. Some platforms are broad marketplaces where clients…
Read →