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- Robinhood is working with Grubhub, Gopuff, and Taskrabbit to offer retirement accounts for workers.
- The brokerage matches a share of workers' contributions, not their overall earnings.
- While some savings are better than none, it's hard for some workers to set much aside.
Some gig work services are offering a perk usually associated with traditional jobs: retirement savings accounts with matching contributions.
Robinhood, the stock trading app, said at the end of February it would work with Grubhub, Gopuff, and Taskrabbit to offer individual retirement accounts to independent contractors on those platforms.