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The term “gig economy” emerged in 2009 to describe freelance and additional task-based work. Some say “gigs” date back to the jazz scene of 1915, but task-based work has been around for quite literally ages. Rather than knowledge and desk-based work, historical “gigs” have been anything from the mundane to some really quite odd jobs.