Portable benefits for people working across platforms for low-income communities
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Global, Global
WS05113
Future workers may combine employment, freelancing, caregiving, entrepreneurship, and AI-assisted production. Benefits must follow people across contracts without making innovation or small-business hiring impossible. The solution must work with limited capital, intermittent services, and local maintenance capacity. The research opportunity is to define measurable success criteria, test the approach in realistic settings, identify failure modes, and create a pathway from prototype to accountable deployment.