Majority of platform workers have no immediate plans to leave their jobs: Poll
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Platform workers comprise about 3 per cent of Singapore's resident workforce, or 79,000 people.
PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO
Bryan Cheong, Deon Loke, Varun Karthik, Malavika Menon, Kolette Lim
SINGAPORE - About seven in 10 platform workers here joined the gig economy during the Covid-19 pandemic, a street poll by The Sunday Times has found.
But despite the recovering job market, only one in four of the 78 platform workers surveyed last month - 30 full-timers and 48 part-timers - have plans to leave the job within the year.