Donald Trump won the presidency by promising to create a jobs boom for middle-wage workers. It’s questionable whether sorting YouTube videos of dancing babies is what voters had in mind.

Yet that’s the kind of work that Rochelle LaPlante, 34, has ended up doing. To help pay the bills she’s taking up “e-lancing” – performing digital tasks, such as categorizing online content. While online projects allow LaPlante to earn more than just the minimum wage without needing to upgrade her skills, she receives no benefits or guarantee of the next paycheck. It’s hardly the dream job for many.

However, for LaPlante and others like her, it’s an easy way to re-enter or even join the job market, and it may be contributing to a revival of the labor force participation rate.

Looking to the future of technology and artificial intelligence, “everyone focuses on the jobs being taken away, and no one is focusing on the jobs being added,” according to Siddharth Suri, one of the founding members of Microsoft Research. Technological progress brings “more kinds of work – AIs need this kind of data – and so it’s opening up a new avenue for workers.”

That should provide a modicum of relief to economists and policymakers who are concerned that the percentage of Americans working or looking for employment hasn’t increased fast enough since hitting an almost four-decade low in 2015.

Despite a slight uptick in the labor force participation rate this year, there are still 1.3 million more Americans outside the labor force than before the 2007-2009 recession, according to Labor Department statistics.

Online gigs may attract some of those people. An October study by the McKinsey Global Institute found that roughly 24 million Americans and Europeans have used virtual marketplaces to find work, and that the number is undergoing “rapid growth.”

A recent study by the Federal Reserve board found that about a third of respondents engaged in paid freelance projects in the past six months, of which almost half sold goods on the Web or engaged in online work-for-pay, according to the survey of 2,483 people in October and November 2015.