{"id":1048066,"date":"2026-11-09T08:32:33","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T03:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1048066"},"modified":"2026-11-09T09:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T03:54:20","slug":"startups-step-in-to-give-gig-workers-a-place-to-rest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/09\/startups-step-in-to-give-gig-workers-a-place-to-rest-2\/","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. It has a canteen, phone charging and battery-swapping stations, washrooms and a co-working space. Membership costs Rs 350 a month or Rs 99 a week, with unlimited visits from 6 am to 11 pm. The centre cost about Rs 4 crore to build.<\/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. It has a canteen, phone charging and battery-swapping stations, washrooms and a co-working space. Membership costs Rs 350 a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1048066","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\/1048066","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048087,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048066\/revisions\/1048087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}