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V. (Paddy) Padmanabhan

Professor of Marketing

Sameer Hasija

Professor of Technology and Operations Management

Journal Article

Will the pandemic push knowledge work into the gig economy?

Hasija S., Padmanabhan V. (., Rampal P. (2020). Will the pandemic push knowledge work into the gig economy? Harvard Business Review Digital Articles

Will the pandemic push knowledge work into the gig economy? The gig economy for knowledge workers never really took off outside of software, largely because organizational and cultural norms got in the way. But the pandemic has forced companies from all sectors to get used to remote working – and remote working is not very different from working a gig. The authors discuss how to approach gigification, offering a task-based framework based on answering three questions: Is the work codifiable? Is there a gap between the creation and consumption of value? Can the work be carried out at home?

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