There's No Such Thing as 'The Gig Economy'

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6. Totally agree with all of your post.

I also think "gig" is a rebranding effort to make "temp" or "on-call" sound cool and progressive. To me, this on-call, service model, is also an attempt to get out of paying even basic regular 8 hour wages.

I was stunned, for instance, when I learned that places like WalMart have associates clock-out when work is slow, and make them wait in the breakroom until the store picks up again, and then have them clock back in to "work."

Other places will send you home after a few hours, but then call you back in to close, etc. Even traditional employers are trying to skim even more profits by defining "work" as specific tasks in the store. If you have to be there at the site, or be on call, you should be paid.