{"id":1046070,"date":"2026-10-31T08:41:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T03:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046070"},"modified":"2026-10-31T09:07:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T03:37:45","slug":"startups-step-in-to-give-gig-workers-a-place-to-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/31\/startups-step-in-to-give-gig-workers-a-place-to-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Startups step in to give gig workers a place to rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the workers who keep India\u2019s quick commerce and e-commerce deliveries running, a clean toilet, a meal sitting down and a corner to rest remain hard to find. Riders wait outside dark stores for orders, and some sleep in rooms where electric scooter batteries are charged. <\/p>\n<p>A handful of startups are now trying to fill this infrastructure gap. Hyderabad-based Upzy is building community centres for workers. It opened its first, a 9,000 sq ft facility in Kondapur, Hyderabad, on October 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the workers who keep India\u2019s quick commerce and e-commerce deliveries running, a clean toilet, a meal sitting down and a corner to rest remain hard to find. Riders wait outside dark stores for orders, and some sleep in rooms where electric scooter batteries are charged. A handful of startups are now trying to fill this infrastructure gap. Hyderabad-based Upzy is building community centres for workers. It opened its first, a 9,000 sq ft facility in Kondapur, Hyderabad, on October 2.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046070","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=1046070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046091,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046070\/revisions\/1046091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}