Kicking off a Gig Work Career: Unfolding a Career Learning Cycle of Gig Workers.

ABSTRACT: We observe gig workers' retrospective sense-making of their career development, from creating an account on online labor platforms to managing gigs successfully. Our data reveals that gig workers advance through three career stages in their initial career learning cycle. We identify each stage as characterized by stage-specific emotions and that they react with specific behaviors to gig work challenges. Gig work challenges that occur in the platform environment are namely the newbie challenge, the positioning and relational challenge, and the balancing challenge, which workers need to overcome in order to transition to the next stage. In line with contemporary career and protean career theory on career learning cycles, gig workers need to build a set of speciali

SUBMITTER: Zwettler C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11416902 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature