{"id":1002976,"date":"2026-04-15T10:49:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002976"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:14:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:44:03","slug":"in-india-1-housekeepers-spark-a-consumer-worker-frenzy-despite-safety-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/15\/in-india-1-housekeepers-spark-a-consumer-worker-frenzy-despite-safety-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"In India, $1 housekeepers spark a consumer, worker frenzy despite safety risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: At Indian startup Pronto&#8217;s training hub, women hone their chopping and mopping skills while learning how to send SOS signals if they feel unsafe inside customers&#8217; homes. They are set to join India&#8217;s newest consumer craze: house help for $1 an hour. <\/p>\n<p>Indu Jaiswar, 35, hopes doing household chores in her first job can help fund her son&#8217;s dream of becoming a doctor. &#8220;This is what we&#8217;ve been doing in our own homes for years. Might as well get paid for it,&#8221; said the mother of two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: At Indian startup Pronto&#8217;s training hub, women hone their chopping and mopping skills while learning how to send SOS signals if they feel unsafe inside customers&#8217; homes. They are set to join India&#8217;s newest consumer craze: house help for $1 an hour. Indu Jaiswar, 35, hopes doing household chores in her first job can help fund her son&#8217;s dream of becoming a doctor. &#8220;This is what we&#8217;ve been doing in our own homes for years. Might as well get paid for it,&#8221; said the mother of two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}