10/04/2025

The Gig Economy in Transition: India’s Realities and Global Insights

The Gig Economy in Transition: India's Realities and Global Insights
The era is accepting agility by gig working platforms, which is mainly due to flexibility, ownership and digital connectivity. India may be one of the global leaders in the race of the Gig Economy with demographic advantage, digital platforms and policy making in place.

As we know, for decades that change has been the only constant, and thus the worker economy is changing. The gig economy is making its place as time changes. Generational changes show the new generation believes that long-term employment is not only an option. Operation methodology, earning patterns of workers, and service delivery expectations are taking a positive turn. The behaviour to earn money in the Gig Economy is concise to short-term term with alignment to a task or some freelancing adventure which connects customers over online platforms. The budding professionals look forward to flexibility, convenience and certainly technological progress worldwide. Indian young workers are experiencing a gig working pattern in increasing urban services demands, and steadfast digitisation, being agile. Thus, the policy makers and business owners face a mix of opportunities and challenges as this growth is now booming.

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Deven Solanki

is Head Plant HR at Exide Industries Limited, Navi Mumbai and was invited by the International Labour Organisation, Geneva to present the paper. He has 10 Years of Experience in IR and HR and is a research scholar in Indian Labour Laws.

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Deven Solanki

is Head Plant HR at Exide Industries Limited, Navi Mumbai and was invited by the International Labour Organisation, Geneva to present the paper. He has 10 Years of Experience in IR and HR and is a research scholar in Indian Labour Laws.

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