AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The gig economy promised freedom. For a long time, it delivered frustration and inconsistent results.<\/p>\n
Think about the last time you needed extra money. Christmas. A car payment. A bill that showed up early. You didn\u2019t want a new career. You wanted a few shifts.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of people are looking for flexibility, but often that flexibility doesn\u2019t come with consistency,\u201d said Novo Constare, CEO of Indeed Flex.<\/p>\n
Temporary staffing isn\u2019t new, and businesses depend on it. \u201cIt\u2019s completely essential for business to run effectively,\u201d Constare said. \u201cBut the problem is it\u2019s slow, antiquated, and quite opaque.\u201d<\/p>\n
An app built to find you work fast<\/p>\n
Constare built Indeed Flex to fix that. The app finds gig work almost instantly.<\/p>\n
Workers start with a screening interview, conducted by a person or by AI. Then comes a self-serve flow in the app.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey go through an onboarding flow where they get a screening interview, either by a human or AI, and then a really simple self-serve flow on our app that gets them verified very, very quickly, in some cases immediately,\u201d Constare said. \u201cOnce they\u2019re verified, they\u2019re legal to work, and we verify their skill sets.\u201d<\/p>\n
A teacher\u2019s side hustle<\/p>\n
TJ Johnson teaches. When school\u2019s out for summer and the holidays, he opens the app.<\/p>\n
Signing up took him about ten minutes. \u201cIt\u2019s all done through the app. It\u2019s probably a 10-minute process,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThey ask for personal information like name, address, and Social Security, so have those handy. Other than that, it\u2019s self-serve. They guide you through the app.\u201d<\/p>\n
Once he\u2019s in, he taps Browse and sees every open shift. Each listing shows the pay, the location, and the distance from his home. Checking his earnings is just as quick. He taps the pay tab and sees what he made last week.<\/p>\n
Johnson has worked a range of jobs through the app. \u201cI\u2019ve done everything from catering shifts to fine dining shifts on there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n