Filling in the Data Gaps on App-Based Platforms

Today, Flex CEO Kristin Sharp published an op-ed in The Well News, highlighting the essential economic contributions of the app-based industry and the importance of data points from our first-of-its-kind industry economic impact report as a resource for policymakers. Read the full op-ed here, and see below for a preview.

“App-based platforms have fundamentally transformed how we move, earn and live so quickly — in just a dozen or so years — that traditional methods for gathering and measuring economic impact have not caught up. … [I]ndustry-wide data points have been missing from conversations on how app-based companies and policymakers can work together. Until now.”