Peers Wants To Offer Help (And Some Stability) To Sharing Economy Workers — buzzfeed.com

As the sharing economy grows, so do the needs of its contract workers. “There is an emerging sharing economy workforce,” Peers executive director Shelby Clark told BuzzFeed News. “It’s totally different than anything we’ve ever seen before, it has new needs. So we need to create new products and services that meet those needs.” To that end, Peers, an online community for sharing economy workers — which according to Clark boasts a quarter of a million people in the network — is rolling out two of the first programs to be made available to its networks of workers on the site’s support marketplace: Homesharing Liability Insurance and Keep Driving.

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