{"id":1031026,"date":"2026-08-25T09:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T03:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031026"},"modified":"2026-08-25T09:47:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T04:17:41","slug":"china-netizens-rage-at-professor-over-welfare-comment-on-gig-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/25\/china-netizens-rage-at-professor-over-welfare-comment-on-gig-work\/","title":{"rendered":"China netizens rage at professor over ‘welfare’ comment on gig work"},"content":{"rendered":"

The term “flexible employment” has gone viral in China after a prominent economics professor described gig work as a form of “welfare”, drawing widespread public anger and highlighting deep anxieties over job insecurity. <\/p>\n

Zhang Dandan, a professor of economics and deputy dean at Peking University’s National School of Development, made the remarks during a discussion on social protection for gig workers, on the popular financial show “Let’s Talk” last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The term “flexible employment” has gone viral in China after a prominent economics professor described gig work as a form of “welfare”, drawing widespread public anger and highlighting deep anxieties over job insecurity. Zhang Dandan, a professor of economics and deputy dean at Peking University’s National School of Development, made the remarks during a discussion on social protection for gig workers, on the popular financial show “Let’s Talk” last week.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031026","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=1031026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031055,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031026\/revisions\/1031055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}