{"id":959382,"date":"2025-09-04T10:32:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T05:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=959382"},"modified":"2025-09-04T12:27:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:57:27","slug":"for-gig-workers-festive-days-mean-more-work-less-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/04\/for-gig-workers-festive-days-mean-more-work-less-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"For gig workers, festive days mean more work, less pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Bengaluru celebrated Ganesh Chaturthi recently, delivery platforms saw a sharp spike in orders for sweets, flowers and last-minute puja essentials. For delivery workers, it meant long hours, congested streets and constant order notifications across multiple apps. <\/p>\n<p>Festival days, once a chance for shorter shifts and steady earnings, have now become the busiest and most demanding periods. Three years ago, delivery workers could make Rs 600-800 with around 20 orders in a day. This year, many are working 14-15 hours and completing nearly double the number of deliveries, only to earn roughly the same amount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Bengaluru celebrated Ganesh Chaturthi recently, delivery platforms saw a sharp spike in orders for sweets, flowers and last-minute puja essentials. For delivery workers, it meant long hours, congested streets and constant order notifications across multiple apps. Festival days, once a chance for shorter shifts and steady earnings, have now become the busiest and most demanding periods. Three years ago, delivery workers could make Rs 600-800 with around 20 orders in a day. This year, many are working 14-15 hours and completing nearly double the number of deliveries, only to earn roughly the same amount.<\/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-959382","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\/959382","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=959382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}