{"id":1242,"date":"2020-06-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aquent.com\/news\/can-the-gig-economy-be-great\/"},"modified":"2023-02-27T11:06:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T16:06:37","slug":"can-the-gig-economy-be-great","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/aquent.com\/en-au\/news\/can-the-gig-economy-be-great","title":{"rendered":"Can the gig economy be great?"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n<blockquote class=\"blockquote\" id=\"block_c614c34d63dc1ecdc362dfd5299f3f36\">\n    <div><span><\/span><\/div>\n    <p>\u201cRight now there's a great deal of inequality in corporate America even in some of the biggest, richest companies.\u201d<\/p>\n    <cite class=\"blockquote__attribution\">\n                    <span class=\"blockquote__name\">JOHN CHUANG, AQUENT CEO<\/span>\n                    <\/cite>\n<\/blockquote><!-- #block_c614c34d63dc1ecdc362dfd5299f3f36 -->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even gig economy companies need to pay fair wages and provide social protections that companies have provided people for 100 years. \u201cYou have two classes of employees\u201d today, said Aquent CEO John Chuang, \u201cregular W2 employees who get great benefits, retirement plans, and lots of perks, and then you have the contingent contractors, who are gig economy employees combined with temporary contractors who don't.\u201d Chuang believes American consumers want companies that create value for them and also don't mistreat their workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It's time for all employees to be treated equally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1373,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":""},"class_list":["post-1242","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO Pro 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It\u2019s time for all employees to be treated equally.\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aquent.com\/en-au\/news\/can-the-gig-economy-be-great\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO Pro (AIOSEO) 5.0.3\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Aquent\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can the gig economy be great? 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