Walmart and Amazon race to win over rural America with speedier deliveriesWalmart and Amazon are aggressively expanding online delivery services into rural America, a market previously overlooked due to logistical...
16 May, 2026, 02.23 PM IST
Amazon aims to revolutionize fast delivery with new 30-minute systemAmazon is revealing a new service offering deliveries in 30 minutes or less for an additional charge. This ultrafast delivery, called Amazo...
12 May, 2026, 06.11 PM IST
Musk’s $158 billion payday is a lot like Tesla stock: full of hot airElon Musk's massive $158 billion compensation package from Tesla highlights stark economic disparities. While workers face stagnant wages a...
01 May, 2026, 11.32 PM IST
Inside AI-led digital storefronts; Lalit Keshre’s big ET Awards winHappy Monday! Digital platforms and brands are building their own AI storefronts. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.
27 Apr, 2026, 07.41 AM IST
India's digital economy creates a new vote bank all parties want to wooThe rise of the gig economy during the pandemic has created a new politically significant vote bank in India. Gig workers, often young and ...
17 Aug, 2023, 03.56 PM IST
India Inc makes a gig shift in hiringThe number of freelance projects on gig platform Flexing It rose 25% in the January-June period from a year earlier. The data was shared ex...
23 Jul, 2023, 06.21 AM IST
White-collar jobs the next gig thing in tech-driven economyThe participation of high-skilled workers in the gig economy surged by 240% last year, primarily driven by the growing demand for tech role...
06 Apr, 2023, 06.50 AM IST
India to collaborate with G20 for gig workersThis is imperative as the countries deliberate on mobility of gig and platform workers between nations along with other skilled workforce.
17 Dec, 2022, 12.28 AM IST
65% Indian firms employing gig workers to tackle tech talent crunch: Nasscom reportNearly 65 per cent of Indian firms are currently employing gig workers, a higher share compared to 57 per cent in 2020, a Nasscom report sa...
03 Nov, 2022, 01.36 PM IST
Youth participation in gig economy increases 8-fold: Taskmo ReportYouth participation in the gig economy has increased 8-fold between 2019 and 2022, according to a research report released by Taskmo. The r...
16 Aug, 2022, 05.01 PM IST
'More women have been opting out of white-collar gig jobs in last two years'Indian women are opting out of the workforce even as freelancers, according to data from the white-collar gig jobs platform which was share...
14 Jun, 2022, 04.15 PM IST
Gig apps for a pandemic economy: Part time, no commitmentAs the hospitality industry, in particular, confronts worker shortages, these apps are helping form an ultra-short-term worker-employee rel...
24 Aug, 2021, 01.45 PM IST
More women go big on gig during Covid pandemic, better jobs now availableThe sea change in work models has opened a plethora of options for women looking for gig opportunities. Before the pandemic, most flexible ...
03 Apr, 2021, 08.58 AM IST
Please, don't stop the music! German band turns van into club, holds rock gigs for fans'Milliarden' recreated a club atmosphere with lighting effects, posters and plastic roses.
22 Feb, 2021, 04.06 PM IST
Bharat is doing better than India in entry-level white-collar gig jobsWork-from-home, reverse migration and startups turning their focus to smaller cities as the next big market are among the reasons for this....
22 Jan, 2021, 11.17 AM IST
India Inc is going big on Gig economyAn Aon survey on “Decoding the Gig Economy” done exclusively for ET showed that about half of the companies surveyed employed gig workforce...
27 Sep, 2020, 05.56 PM IST
Covid-effect: Companies now hiring a mix of full-time, part-time workersA report on the state of the professional gig economy during Covid shows that the success of work-from-home is pushing companies to hire a ...
06 Aug, 2020, 09.59 AM IST