The working hours and happiness of the self-employed are starting to recover – five years on from the downturn induced by the pandemic, research from the University of Liverpool Management School and LSE reveals. But the authors of the report Road to recovery: Self-employed on the mend? The report, the eighth in the series, draws on a representative sample of 1,800 individuals in the self-employed population to highlight the experiences of the self-employed during and after the pandemic. But not everyone has benefited – those working for app-based companies are more likely to report longer hours, but not necessarily more pay. The responses are weighted to represent the population of self-employed workers.