Living paycheck to paycheck is generally regarded as an indication of cutting it a little too close to the edge, or evidence of sub-optimal personal financial management. But some employees cant even afford to wait for their next paycheck to arrive, and for them theres a new app for that assuming their employer is willing to go along with it.
Introducing Activehours, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based tech company founded in 2013 that has recently established alliances with several timesheet providers to enable hourly workers to gain immediate access to pay for hours they have already worked. In effect, they are given the freedom to live day-to-day, or even, in theory, hour-to-hour.
