About statfern

By Nan Liang, data editor · 2026-11-13

statfern is a statistics publication about how people work: remote work, the four-day week, freelancing, side hustles, the gig economy and AI at work.

The site exists because work statistics on the internet have a quality problem. Numbers get copied from blog to blog until nobody can say where they came from, and surveys from 2019 keep getting quoted as if they describe this year. Our answer is a simple discipline: every figure on statfern must name the institution that published it, the year the data refers to, and a link to the source page.

How a number gets on this site

1. We find a statistic in a published report, survey or dataset.
2. We open the primary source and confirm the number appears there.
3. We record the source URL, the data year and the sample or scope.
4. A second pass re-checks a random sample of entries before publication.

The full process is documented on our methodology page, and our correction policy is on the editorial policy page.

The editor

statfern is compiled by Nan Liang, who also writes at javaeye.dev. You can reach the team any time at support@statfern.com.