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>Just because you're self-employed, selling your services to others on a contract basis, doesn't make that gig work. doesn't it? as far as i can tell, the onl
by notatoad 6y ago
>Just because you're self-employed, selling your services to others on a contract basis, doesn't make that gig work.
doesn't it? as far as i can tell, the only distinction between "gig economy" and contract workers is that contract workers actually get paid at rates that make it sustainable and that being between contracts isn't a catastrophe, whereas jobs classed as "gig economy" pay low enough to keep the workers desperate for the next gig.
- eswat 6y agoMost gig work is done through middlemen/platforms where only some contract work like that exists and typically for longer engagements (ie: through agencies and temp staffing). Contractors also have more flexibility to develop a relationship with the “client” for better opportunties down the road without the middleman/platform interfering.
- walshemj 6y agoThe modern use of "gig" economy is mostly a tax dodge and avoiding classifying them as employees. That's quite different to say a session musician getting the call can you by at Abby Road tomorrow at 9 "big name star" needs a guitar player. Gig in the original sense originally a musicians term for a Job
- ineedasername 6y agoNo, it really doesn't. If anything, your observation of "low paying", which is often a defining characteristic of "gig" work, is sufficient to not to apply the term to more general contract-work employment situations. It is much more comparable to consider them in the same category as "temp worker". Enough so that the wikipedia page for is flagged as a candidate for for the two to be merged.