{"id":1005109,"date":"2026-04-27T09:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005109"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:04:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:34:54","slug":"work-minus-gigs-equals-less-giggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/27\/work-minus-gigs-equals-less-giggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Work minus gigs equals less giggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life of a gig worker remains under a socio-economic veil. Mysteries, intrigues, paradoxes, and contradictions surround her life. This has prompted several researchers to conduct controlled ethnographic studies by following them 24&#215;7 for several days and weeks. Experts realise that watching the gig workers from a distance, or engaging with them via short and long interviews, does not provide a full picture. This is visible from a survey, which interviewed 1,355 employees across Karnataka, and whose excerpts were captured by a media website. More than clarity, the picture that emerges is foggy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life of a gig worker remains under a socio-economic veil. Mysteries, intrigues, paradoxes, and contradictions surround her life. This has prompted several researchers to conduct controlled ethnographic studies by following them 24&#215;7 for several days and weeks. Experts realise that watching the gig workers from a distance, or engaging with them via short and long interviews, does not provide a full picture. This is visible from a survey, which interviewed 1,355 employees across Karnataka, and whose excerpts were captured by a media website. More than clarity, the picture that emerges is foggy.<\/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":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005109","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=1005109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005116,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005109\/revisions\/1005116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}