Gig Economy
It's all about hours clocked—Urban Company data punctures work value talk
Urban Company's top 5% professionals spent an average of 167 hours a month working for the platform, nearly double the hours logged by the average Urban Company ‘partner’.
4 min read6 Feb 2026Economic Survey: Gig workers face constant stress, pay insecurity, isolation and burnout
The survey highlighted that many migrants who move to urban centres face loneliness and social isolation despite financial gains. This affects their mental well health and productivity at work, and can lead to early attrition, increasing costs for employers, it said.
5 min read30 Jan 2026Economic Survey flags income volatility, credit gaps for India’s gig workers
The Economic Survey 2025–26 reveals that while India’s gig workforce has grown, structural issues such as income volatility and a lack of formal credit remain widespread.
3 min read29 Jan 2026Nitin Pai: Don’t overburden the gig economy—it offers millions of Indians their first job
Do not burden the gig economy with constraints born of outrage rather than evidence. For millions of Indians, gig work has become the first rung of the employment ladder—a foothold that offers income, flexibility and mobility. The challenge is not regulation, but building higher rungs above it.
4 min read25 Jan 2026Bike taxis back on Karnataka roads, aggregators breathe easy after high court relief
The Karnataka High Court has legalized bike taxis by ruling that motorcycles fall under the transport vehicle definition of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.
2 min read23 Jan 2026Job seekers find a new source of income: Training AI to do their old roles
Buzzy AI startup Mercor employs tens of thousands of white-collar contractors, and the gig is open to anyone with expertise in their own particular field.
5 min read12 Jan 2026From streets to screens: How India’s gig economy finds income, and fame, online
Social media has emerged as a parallel income stream, an extension of their primary gig, because it lowers entry barriers and rewards visibility.
5 min read9 Jan 2026How much does a gig worker really earn? It's not quite what Deepinder Goyal would have us believe
The earnings of a gig worker are shaped less by fixed wages and more by a constantly shifting balance of supply and demand.
9 min read7 Jan 2026How India's Unique Economic Problem & On Ground Realty Is Choking Gig Workers, Delivery Agents
Lack of formal jobs, Poor finances, lack of skill set, huge supply of youngsters willing to work in most demanding conditions, are fuelling India's gig economy. And therefore all the rules on paper are failing to address these realistic issues on the ground. #zomato #swiggy #amazon #blinkit #zepto #delivery #onlineordering #food #fastdelivery #10minutes #ecommerce #abhinavtrivedi #abhinav #narendramodi #nirmalasitharaman #india
5 Jan 2026India’s gig debate misses a key point: Better wages for delivery agents will aid the economy without hurting platforms
Strikes by delivery riders have reignited a noisy debate over wages, exploitation and entrepreneurship. But better pay won’t ruin the gig model used by Zomato, Swiggy, Zepto and others. In combination with adherence to Labour Codes, it could help solve a larger economic problem.
2 min read5 Jan 2026