My HRchat Podcast guest this time is Daniel Altman PhD, Chief Economist at Instawork. Dan leads Instawork’s Economic Research Division and is an expert on local labor markets, especially for in-person hourly work.
After completing his doctorate in economics at Harvard, he wrote commentary on the staffs of The New York Times and The Economist, served as an economic advisor in the British government, taught on the faculty of New York University’s Stern School of Business, and was the first head of strategy at Kaplan-Levien Sports Group and the first director of thought leadership at Dalberg. Dan is a frequent speaker and writer on the labor market and the economy at large.
Questions for Daniel include:
- What are your predictions for the US labor market in 2024?
- How has the use of flexible in-person labor changed from before the pandemic and during the early years of the pandemic to now?
- The inaugural Instawork report State of the Flexible Workforce was recently released. It sheds light on the fastest-growing segment of the American workforce. The data detail the diversity, quality, and motivations of these hourly workers, as well as pinpointing the factors that make them successful. Can you share some of the findings?