Airbnb says no one is measuring how much money the ‘sharing economy’ is truly worth

Are you an Airbnb host? An Ebay seller? Or Uber driver? Increasingly the answer to one of those, supplementing the name of any ‘sharing economy’ service, is likely to be yes. In the context of this, Airbnb welcomed its four millionth guest in the UK yesterday with the launch of a report in collaboration with Sharing Economy UK that shows exactly what we’re missing if we don’t measure this kind of work as part of the economy. The pair call on the government, specifically in the UK but applicable wherever services like these are changing the way we do business, to include sharing in its official labor…

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