Keyword Gig Economy

After a fateful near-miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.

Josh Chang is a struggling gig economy worker who picks up passengers on Election Day, which changes the course of everyone's lives forever.

Gus spends every waking hour in Virtual Reality, ignoring the Gigworkers who tend to his physiological needs.

When a young college student, with a promising academic career, returns to her hometown for the summer, she discovers that her rowdy friends from high school have become obsessed with a popular new gig app for aspiring criminals.

A very human tech doc, uncovers the real costs of the platform economy through the lives of workers from around the world for companies including Uber, Amazon and Deliveroo. From delivering food and driving ride shares to tagging images for AI, millions of people around the world are finding work task by task online. The gig economy is worth over 5 trillion USD globally, and growing. And yet the stories of the workers behind this tech revolution have gone largely neglected. Who are the people in this shadow workforce? It brings their stories into the light. Lured by the promise of flexible work hours, independence, and control over time and money, workers from around the world have found a very different reality. Work conditions are often dangerous, pay often changes without notice, and workers can effectively be fired through deactivation or a bad rating. Through an engaging global cast of characters, it reveals how the magic of technology we are being sold might not be magic at all.

The work mediated by digital apps and platforms is growing worldwide. But the advance of the “gig economy”, called in Brazil “uberization”, has aroused debates about the precariousness and intensification of work.

A food delivery worker reflects about his job while biking home.