{"id":983579,"date":"2026-01-06T09:09:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983579"},"modified":"2026-01-06T09:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:50:20","slug":"zomatos-gig-economy-lives-in-the-grey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/06\/zomatos-gig-economy-lives-in-the-grey\/","title":{"rendered":"Zomato\u2019s gig economy lives in the grey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The strike by delivery workers on December 31, and the forceful defence mounted soon after by Eternal CEO Deepinder Goyal, have turned the gig economy into a proxy battlefield for a larger ideological debate. Numbers have been marshalled, hourly earnings calculated, and the language of capitalism versus socialism dusted off with unusual confidence. What has been lost in the heat is a simple fact that modern economies do not work in absolutes, and neither do modern democracies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The strike by delivery workers on December 31, and the forceful defence mounted soon after by Eternal CEO Deepinder Goyal, have turned the gig economy into a proxy battlefield for a larger ideological debate. Numbers have been marshalled, hourly earnings calculated, and the language of capitalism versus socialism dusted off with unusual confidence. What has been lost in the heat is a simple fact that modern economies do not work in absolutes, and neither do modern democracies.<\/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-983579","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\/983579","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=983579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}