Survey: 63% Of On-Demand Workers Consider Themselves Independent Contractors

86% of respondents worked for Uber or Lyft.

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The on-demand economy is at a crossroads. Today, as BuzzFeed News reported, the California Labor Commission ruled that a San Francisco Uber driver was an employee, not an independent contractor as the company claims. The commission's ruling comes just weeks after the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity determined that former Uber driver Darrin McGillis was also an employee and months after two groups of Uber and Lyft drivers filed class action suits against the companies alleging they had been misclassified as independent contractors.

As the legal battle around on-demand worker classification picks up steam, a new study suggests that there's a debate over classification among workers themselves. According to a survey of 201 on-demand workers by on-demand analytics platform SherpaShare, 63% of respondents believe they are independent contractors, and interestingly 86% of them were Uber or Lyft drivers. Specifically, 69% of drivers who worked only for Uber and 72% of drivers who worked only for Lyft said they were independent contractors.

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