Record High Number of Australians Working Multiple Jobs

Record High Number of Australians Working Multiple Jobs
A food delivery worker rides in the central business district of Sydney on June 26, 2021. Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty Images
Rebecca Zhu
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A record number of Australians are juggling two or more jobs as COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions push workers into the gig economy, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has revealed.

Newly released data from the ABS revealed that 6.5 percent of the Australian working population now had more than one job during the June quarter, the highest figure since the ABS began tracking the data in 1994.