{"id":983610,"date":"2026-01-06T09:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983610"},"modified":"2026-01-06T09:36:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:06:56","slug":"income-disparity-tough-work-conditions-plague-gig-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/06\/income-disparity-tough-work-conditions-plague-gig-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Income disparity, tough work conditions plague gig work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even as the debate around gig workers\u2019 earnings refuses to die down, HR and staffing solution companies point to wide disparities in monthly average incomes and tough work conditions leading to high attrition rate. While Eternal founder Deepinder Goyal has claimed that a delivery partner can earn over Rs 25,000 a month on average, workers\u2019 unions contest this, saying that on a normal day gig workers earn just Rs 6\u2013Rs11 per delivery. They also note that many food delivery platforms initially paid as much as Rs 50 per delivery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as the debate around gig workers\u2019 earnings refuses to die down, HR and staffing solution companies point to wide disparities in monthly average incomes and tough work conditions leading to high attrition rate. While Eternal founder Deepinder Goyal has claimed that a delivery partner can earn over Rs 25,000 a month on average, workers\u2019 unions contest this, saying that on a normal day gig workers earn just Rs 6\u2013Rs11 per delivery. They also note that many food delivery platforms initially paid as much as Rs 50 per delivery.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983610","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=983610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}