Impact of Gig Economy on Unethical Work Practices and Work Culture Adopted by Gig Organizations—Sustainability Concerns for the Future

Komal Kapoor () and Alpana Agarwal ()
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Komal Kapoor: IMSUC
Alpana Agarwal: Amity University

A chapter in Sustainability in the Gig Economy, 2022, pp 137-149 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The chapter has focussed on the opportunities and challenges linked to the gig economy and conditions of working for the gig workers. With the passage of time, more gig working is being added to various industries as flexible working, ad hoc employment and part-time working have become a norm. For many of the sectors, gig working has been a norm and would continue to be so like ride sharing, retails store and also food delivery service. But on the same front, many unethical work practices are associated with gig working as the interest of the workers is compromised. These lead to many kinds of unethical practices, job insecurity, no proper wages and pay, poor leave policy and lack of well-being benefits of being treated as actual full-time employees. Many such cases of USA, UK and India-based companies have been analysed for the same analysis that would help in better management of gig workers in the future. It has also been highlighted that it is the responsibility of the companies to adopt more ethical and sustainable work practices that help the gig economy develop along with being counted as core work force.

Keywords: Gig economy; Gig workers; Unethical practices; Future sustainability; Work culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-8406-7_10

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