An average food platform delivery worker is more qualified, works longer hours but earns lesser than a comparable Indian male urban worker, a survey released on Monday showed. A survey by think tank NCAER covering workers of an app-based food delivery platform showed that an average platform worker put in 69.3 hours a week, as against 56 hours for a worker covered by the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) — which means he worked 23% extra.
They are very highly educated. One person had even been the head of a polytechnic institute, said Bornali Bhandari, a professor at NCAER and lead researcher of the study.