TY - CHAP
T1 - Career sustainability in the gig economy
T2 - a delicate balancing act
AU - Jacobs, Sofie
AU - Akkermans, Jos
AU - van der Heijden, B.I.J.M.
AU - de Vos, Ans
PY - 2025/3/13
Y1 - 2025/3/13
N2 - As the gig economy expands, ambiguity in understanding gig work and its dynamics poses challenges to both research and practice. This chapter focuses on the crucial need to comprehend and nurture sustainable careers within this complex context. Gig workers navigate multi-layered realities, which are marked by tensions across time, person, and context dimensions. Career sustainability is desired, yet often elusive, due to the gig economy's structure. This paradox forms a meta-tension, making sustainable career attainment a critical but challenging objective. It underscores an urgency to decipher mechanisms that allow gig workers to build stable, satisfying, and sustainable careers despite these inherent tensions. Through the investigation and untangling of these ambiguities and complexities, we provide a foundation that facilitates further exploration and discovery of strategies to foster sustainable careers within the rapidly evolving gig landscape.
AB - As the gig economy expands, ambiguity in understanding gig work and its dynamics poses challenges to both research and practice. This chapter focuses on the crucial need to comprehend and nurture sustainable careers within this complex context. Gig workers navigate multi-layered realities, which are marked by tensions across time, person, and context dimensions. Career sustainability is desired, yet often elusive, due to the gig economy's structure. This paradox forms a meta-tension, making sustainable career attainment a critical but challenging objective. It underscores an urgency to decipher mechanisms that allow gig workers to build stable, satisfying, and sustainable careers despite these inherent tensions. Through the investigation and untangling of these ambiguities and complexities, we provide a foundation that facilitates further exploration and discovery of strategies to foster sustainable careers within the rapidly evolving gig landscape.
U2 - 10.4337/9781035318537.00010
DO - 10.4337/9781035318537.00010
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781035318520
T3 - Research Handbooks in Business and Management series
SP - 51
EP - 66
BT - Research Handbook of Careers in the Gig Economy
A2 - Akkermans, J.
A2 - Keegan, A.
A2 - Pichault, F.
PB - Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
ER -