The Workers Lab

The Workers Lab invests in new ideas that enable workers to experience safe, healthy, and secure employment.  This grant supports the pilot of new public tech platform and community-based operating models to strengthen gig work in Chicago.  The community-based operating model situates the tech platform with trusted, local employers of record who facilitate short-term work opportunities, also known as "gigs", on a W-2.  The W-2 status ensures that workers get rights, benefits, and protections, without sacrificing flexibility and gaining even more control over the number of hours worked, for whom, when, and for how much.