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Kicking off a Gig Work Career: Unfolding a Career Learning Cycle of Gig Workers. [PDF]

J Career Assess, 2023
We observe gig workers’ retrospective sense-making of their career development, from creating an account on online labor platforms to managing gigs successfully. Our data reveals that gig workers advance through three career stages in their initial career learning cycle.
Zwettler C, Straub C, Spurk D.
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Gig Work and the Pandemic: Looking for Good Pay from Bad Jobs During the COVID-19 Crisis. [PDF]

Work Occup, 2023
Reynolds J, Kincaid R.
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Job demands-resources on digital gig platforms and counterproductive work behavior [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionWith the rapid expansion of digital gig platforms, counterproductive work behavior among gig workers has become increasingly prominent, adversely impacting the platform’s reputation, operational efficiency, and user experience.
Shanshan Zhao, Shanshan Zhao, Yanfeng Liu, Yanfeng Liu   +3 more
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Navigating autonomy: unraveling the dual influence of job autonomy on workplace well-being in the gig economy [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionWith the rapid rise of the gig economy globally, its characteristics of promoting employment and facilitating autonomy have supported its rapid growth and development in China.
Zhitao Wan, Lei Zhang, Li Wang, Fang Zhang   +3 more
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The Benefits and Challenges of the Gig Economy: Perspective of Gig Workers and Small Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) in South Africa

African Journal of Inter-Multidisciplinary Studies, 2023
Digital work, otherwise referred to as 'gig' work, is heralded as a useful strategy that could help bridge the unemployment rate in South Africa by connecting job seekers and business organisations across the global spectrum.
Sudhika Palhad , Stanley Onwubu, Rasmi Singh, Rookmoney Thakur, Surendra Thakur, Gugu Mkhize   +5 more
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Behind the flexibility: insufficient occupational injury protection of gig workers in China

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
ObjectiveOccupational injury protection is essential to safeguard the basic rights of workers. This article focuses on a group of gig workers who have emerged on a large scale in recent years in China and aims to explore their status of occupational ...
Xiaoxing Ran, Ying Zhao
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Surviving the pitfalls of gig work

, 2023
Ria Ernunsari
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Having a whale of a time: Linking self-determination theory (SDT), job characteristics model (JCM) and motivation to the joy of gig work

Cogent Business & Management, 2020
The increasing uberization of work has emerged as an intrinsic part of our digitalized society, allowing opportunities for unbridled success for global firms using gig work.
Umer Zaman, Shahid Nawaz, Areesha Javed, Tareq Rasul   +3 more
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Are algorithmically controlled gig workers deeply burned out? An empirical study on employee work engagement

BMC Psychology, 2023
Background With the emergence of the gig economy as a new economic form, the influence of algorithmic technology control on gig workers’ perceptions and engagement has become a topic of academic concern.
Jiao Jiao Lang, Li Feng Yang, Chen Cheng, Xiang Yang Cheng, Fei Yu Chen   +4 more
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Gig Work and Health

, 2023
The gig economy has grown rapidly, introducing new employment modes and platform-based algorithmic management. It has attracted large numbers of workers across the globe into jobs such as self-employed couriers. In developing countries, they are mainly young migrant workers with relatively low education background. The quality of work and employment at
Wei, Hua, Van Tongeren, Martie
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