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In places like India, Vietnam and China, churning out weird AI videos is the latest side hustle for students and stay-at-home mothers.
Plenty of people, including workers in the gig economy, could be excluded from a four-day week.
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Not all jobs and pay levels will be conducive to a four-day working week.
A delivery worker rides a bicycle in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in May 2021.
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While the gig economy offers flexibility and opportunities, it also presents significant challenges that need to be addressed to ensure the well-being of platform workers.
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Addressing the problem will require a more inclusive labour market that better accommodates non-standard career paths.
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Respondents to a survey confirmed they would hesitate to encourage anyone to become a freelancer given the limited prospects currently offered in the profession.
Two travel nurses talk on FaceTime with their 4-year-old son while working far from home at a field hospital set up to handle a surge of COVID-19 patients in 2021.
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A new study found that temporary assignments in new places reignited nurses’ passion to help others and helped them rediscover the meaningfulness of their work.
Prof Eddie Webster.
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Eddie Webster inspired generations of scholars with his vision and practice of critically engaged scholarship, in South Africa and worldwide.
As if it wasn’t tough enough already.
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Roughly 1m female delivery riders have had to face down a social media campaign which compounded longstanding false connections with sex work.
Fare enough?
Ink Drop
After a decade of brutal competition, hackney drivers are being invited in from the cold.
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Experts say gig economy workers are less protected as more companies create benefits packages for self-employed workers.
Drivers that juggle driving with another job were more likely to run red lights and carry weapons, such as knives, for safety reasons. These behaviours pose risks not only to drivers, but also to the public.
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Companies like Uber and Lyft have a long way to go in improving worker safety to ensure both drivers and passengers feel safe on the road.
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A suite of protections for gig workers will be contained in legislation to be introduced into parliament next week, and will also include measures on rights for casual workers and stopping wage theft
TVO employees and supporters are seen on the picket line outside of TVO offices in Toronto on Aug. 21, 2023. Dozens of workers at TVO have walked off the job.
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Although work in journalism has never been a safe bet, it’s now rife with deepening uncertainty. The TVO strike aimed at job security is a matter of public interest.
Instead of owning physical copies of DVDs or CDs, for example, people subscribe to streaming services, allowing them to access a wide range of products without the burden of traditional ownership.
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These days people prefer to simply have access to goods and services, rather than outright owning them. But what does this mean for the future of consumerism?
Brexit dividend?
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Now that EU ministers have reached agreement on the platform work directive, the big question is whether the UK will follow suit.
Migrant workers protesting outside Euston Station in London, October 2022.
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Since 2011, I’ve worked in more than 20 precarious workplaces in hospitality, manufacturing and logistics – and I have only seen a union once.
Striking workers picket outside of Warner Bros. Studios on the second day of the Hollywood writers strike on May 3, 2023, in Burbank, Calif.
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The writers strike lays bare all the ills of working on one of the lowest rungs of the entertainment industry.
Riders who deliver for online food platforms are self-employed, and can nominate a substitute to deliver on their behalf.
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Our study of food delivery workers in one English city highlights the daily challenges facing undocumented migrants in this sector.
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Australia’s largest private-sector employers are steadily integrating gig workers into their operations.
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Australian startup MilkRun may have attracted more than $85 million in venture capital but it always had a challenging business model.