I have just read a report from the Chartered Institute and Development trying to downplay the extent of the gig economy. Based on the headline, it is flawed in a number of ways. To drill down on three.

1. It refers to the gig economy at around 480 thousand representing 1.4% of the workforce. That would be a workforce of nearly half a billion roughly the size of the EU workforce.

2. The report refers to dispatch and food deliverers only being 20% of the gig economy instead of providing numbers which show what percentage of people working in that sector have to work in the gig economy.

3. It refers to a large proportion of the gig economy working in areas in the service sector, such as web design, which largely comprise freelancers working with several companies.

It looks like an instance, like the tobacco/gun lobby, who have commissioned researchers to see out 'evidence' that suites ther narrative and disregard everything else.