Canadas Gig Workers Assesment Report

Running head: CANADA’S GIG WORKERS
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Introduction
Gig economy could be considered as platform, and the sharing or collaborative
economy that is significantly expanding as the digital platforms that allows the combining
together of purchasers as well as the workers of the services continues to emerge as well as
expand globally. Yet, it has been observed that while there is significant growth in the
developments within the gig economy as well as the experiences of the workers within it,
significantly little research has been conducted to date has been focussed on the countries
such as Canada on the gendered experiences of the gig work. This essay intends to analyse
the prospectives of the Canada gig workers and determine their working conditions.
Discussion
Canada’s Gig Workers
The gig economy of Canada mainly denotes to the activities that could be coordinated
using the digital platforms. The companies who are operating the platforms acts as the
intermediaries, allowing the purchasers for ordering the timed as well as the monetized task
from the available worker, commonly taking the fee or the commission when this service has
been paid for it has been completed. The workers takes on the specific gigs in Canada
without any constant assurance of any kind of further employment and these are invariably
classified by the gig economy as the independent contractors instead of the employees.
Canada has been successful in ensuring that the unemployment rate is lowest in almost forty
years. In spite of the beneficial economic indicator, the majority of the surveyed Canadians
are presently experiencing the psychological recessions [1]. This particular economic anxiety
might be the symptom of the unpredictability of the modernization of Canadian economy as
well as the changes within the nature of the work. It has been described by the various
researchers that the gig economy is the temporary, flexible jobs which are the commonplace

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and presently the companies are tending towards the hiring of independent freelancers as well
as the contractors rather than any full-time employees. In the communities that are
economically struggling, and the regions that are roiled by the globalisation as well as the
altering demands of customers, the technology implementation could develop the
spontaneous opportunities of work that might not have the otherwise accessible [2]. The
major operating models of the platforms of gig economy could be classified into the
crowdwork and the on-demand works. The crowdwork denotes to the tasks that have been
commissioned as well as executed virtually, using the internet. The purchasers of service
advertise the particular tasks on the platforms, that could then be matched to the particularly
skilled crowdworkers placed anywhere within the world. Within this model, crowdsourcer as
well as the crowdworker infrequently experience any kind of face-to-face conversations. The
on-demand work denotes to the tasks that could be executed locally, with involvement of the
purchaser as well as the provider within the physical proximity [3]. These kinds of tasks are
commonly organized using the mobile platforms by the companies that sets the terms of
particular service, involving the fees as well as the minimum standards of service quality and
then have a role in the selection and the management of workers. In some of the contexts,
notably within the poorer countries, the workers have the ability of engaging the work
platforms utilizing the lower technology methods, like the text messages, or the phone calls.
With the introduction of the digital platform in the gig industry, the workers are extensively
centralized and empowered. The entire gig industry could be classified into the three sectors,
namely the spread of various digital technology, the significant flexibilisation of the labour
markets as well as the individualization of the labour. The present developments in the
information as well as the digital technologies, the higher quality as well as the low costs of
the infrastructure of the information technology, have led to the creation of the enabling
environment for the new jobs as well as the forms of the work globally [4]. The digital