Gig workers are more stressed than other types of workers. Two experts explain coping strategies that are likely to help, and which to avoid.
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The pandemic home-delivery boom is driving a push to automation and precarious work by Australian supermarkets.
Food delivery workers are now essential workers. But they’re still not treated as employees.
The online game of geocaching shows there are ways to create value online that are not purely financial.
The business models of the gig economy often stand in the way of implementing minimum wages or conditions.
While there has been a rise in contracting out and ‘disruptors’ such as Uber, employment is an will remain the dominant method of business operation in a capitalist setting.
Some of the newest enterprises online are those which link workers to anyone who wants a job done. They’re not concerned with employment or jobs but with “tasks”. These are small, one-off, discrete portions…
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Postgrad student and freelance writer, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor UTS Centre for Business and Social Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Marketing, RMIT University
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Associate Professor of Marketing, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, School of Business, The University of Queensland
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The University of Queensland
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PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland
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PhD Candidate, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Psychology, CQUniversity Australia
