Gigification
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Gigification is a noun meaning (business) The process whereby stable, full-time jobs are replaced by freelance ones.
Meaning
(business) The process whereby stable, full-time jobs are replaced by freelance ones.
Example Sentences
The Covid-19 epidemic could well prove to be a pivotal point in the gigification of knowledge work, and many firms will be attracted by the prospects of the direct and indirect cost savings that the gig economy model seems to offer.
Some of [the] central provisions [of the contract] […] will serve to put brakes on the relentless erosion of the number of writing jobs available—the sort of deadly, profit-driven gigification of once-stable careers that afflicts taxi drivers, college professors, and screenwriters alike.
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