{"id":982904,"date":"2026-01-01T07:50:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982904"},"modified":"2026-01-01T08:10:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:40:58","slug":"gig-workers-strike-fizzles-as-platforms-deploy-incentives-to-counter-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/01\/gig-workers-strike-fizzles-as-platforms-deploy-incentives-to-counter-dissent\/","title":{"rendered":"Gig workers strike fizzles as platforms deploy incentives to counter dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick commerce platforms deployed surge incentives to counter a nationwide strike call by delivery worker unions on Tuesday, with operations remaining largely unaffected across major metros despite union claims of 1.5 lakh participants. <\/p>\n<p>Industry executives FE spoke to said the strike resulted in heightened disruptions in some areas of Mumbai, and Hyderabad. However, these were stabilised through the course of the day. A ground check at multiple dark stores of Zepto, Instamart, Blinkit, and BigBasket in JP Nagar and Jayanagar areas of Bengaluru showed deliveries running normally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick commerce platforms deployed surge incentives to counter a nationwide strike call by delivery worker unions on Tuesday, with operations remaining largely unaffected across major metros despite union claims of 1.5 lakh participants. Industry executives FE spoke to said the strike resulted in heightened disruptions in some areas of Mumbai, and Hyderabad. However, these were stabilised through the course of the day. A ground check at multiple dark stores of Zepto, Instamart, Blinkit, and BigBasket in JP Nagar and Jayanagar areas of Bengaluru showed deliveries running normally.<\/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-982904","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\/982904","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=982904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}