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Vandana Vasudevan’s OTP Please! may not be the first attempt to capture the gig economy in its entirety, but it approaches it from an angle that makes the shifts it has wrought in our lives more viscerally felt.

Human algorithm: OTP Please! reveals hidden emotions of our gig economy

December 03, 2025 1:17 pm

Through voices from across South Asia, OTP Please! uncovers how buyers, workers, sellers and platforms begin to mirror one another in unexpected ways.

How gig workers struggle between flexibility and insecurity

July 04, 2025 1:35 pm

Gig work is different from traditional employment relationships and so are the vulnerabilities it creates. But what are the challenges faced by gig workers in ensuring social security, minimum wages, and protection from exploitation?

IPO Urban Company operates as an aggregator for skilled workers — electricians, plumbers, carpenters, cleaners, and beauty professionals — who typically earn more while working fewer hours.

Urban Company IPO: Home services provider readies for Rs 1,900-crore fundraise as skilled gig workers' earnings outpace peers, salaried counterparts

May 06, 2025 8:50 pm

Urban Company plan to use the IPO proceeds primarily towards strengthening its technology and cloud infrastructure.

After Nirmala Sitharaman’s announcements for gig workers, Pune-based unions say more could be done

February 01, 2025 5:43 pm

In her Union Budget, Nirmala Sitharaman said the Centre would provide identity cards and registration on the e-Shram portal for gig workers.

GIPSWU is demanding access to social security benefits similar to those enjoyed by traditional employees, including pension schemes, provident funds and maternity benefits. (Express)

Pune: Women gig workers lead nationwide strike on Diwali; demand fair wages, social security

October 29, 2024 5:52 pm

Nisha Pawar, Maharashtra in-charge of GIPSWU, who has worked as a beautician with Urban Company for the past eight years, emphasised the need for fair wages and recognition as employees.

Rajasthan tables Bill to guarantee social security to gig workers

July 22, 2023 10:41 am

The Bill also seeks to register all gig workers and aggregators, saying that “aggregators shall provide to the state government its database of all platform-based gig workers on-boarded or registered with them, within sixty days of enforcement of this Act.”