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Is this the moment of reckoning for the gig economy? John Arlidge We’ve been tapping more than ever since lockdowns began almost a year ago. We tap our screens for Amazon, Ocado and Deliveroo. App-based big online retailers have seen demand and profits skyrocket. Amazon has been raking in $11,000 a second the firm’s founder, Jeff Bezos, has seen his net worth grow to almost $200 billion. That’s good news for consumers in tough times, for the whizzy new e-businesses, and for their workers, right? Not if you ask the ever-growing army of always-on gig workers that do the heavy lifting, racing to deliver what we “need” when we need it. Thanks to our “get it now” culture, Britain has more gig workers as a proportion of the overall workforce than any other of the G7 group of the world’s richest nations some five million, half of those in London and the South-East and critics say they are getting a raw deal. ....