How the Future of Work May Make Many of Us Happier

in the news | January 21, 2015

The World Post

Anne-Marie Slaughter:

"The on-demand economy must become a care economy in one other crucial way. We will have to care enough about all platform workers to ensure that they can earn a living wage, have access to good healthcare and education and be able to provide for their futures.*

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