Across Britain, gig work – part of a casualised, precarious and on-call jobs market – is growing at a giddy rate. Commercialising spare timeIn the gig economy, employees are no longer protected by a legal system that was designed for a different age. In almost every case workers in the gig economy have proved that they are in fact employees. The Conservative government offers only cosmetic changes to the rules governing the gig economy. On a deeper level, the gig economy is erasing what was for many the traditional goal of working: to buy free time.

Source: The Guardian December 30, 2019 15:56 UTC