A Gateway to the financial mainstream’ looks into Kenya’s gig economy which continues to grow with more than 60 percent of gig workers joining the gig economy between the years 2017 - 2019. Read MoreCurrently, the online gig economy -the portion of gig work that is attained through digital platforms- is a tiny bit of the overall gig economy. Research-based estimates in 2019 put the total size of the online gig economy in Kenya at USD109 million (Sh11.8 billion), employing 36,573, while the offline gig economy comprises 5.1 million workers, and accounts for USD19.6 billion. Being self-employed with the freedom to work at an individual pace are part of why gig work is growing. But access to gig work opportunities is often not enough to keep a gig worker afloat.

Source: Standard Digital September 30, 2020 09:36 UTC