Independent workers continuous engagement in the gig economy: A meta-analysis

Abstract

The development of information and communication technology (ICT) originates in a new nature of the working environment, explicitly the Gig economy, where the workers rely on apps or systems to conduct a job. The emergence of a new organisational setting provides the degree of freedom and flexibility that drives independent workers to decide on short-term jobs. This shows how important it is to understand how independent workers remain active in the gig economy. Thus, this research aims to systematise the available literature on the continuous engagement of independent workers. The meta-analysis is conducted to discover previous studies on the continuous engagement of independent workers in the gig economy platform from 2012 to 2022. The meta-analysis was undertaken using 12 papers instead of the preliminary phase 30 articles, which were thoroughly excluded. The result concluded that the continuous engagement of independent workers is crucial because they still need an answer to the motivation factors that drive them to engage continuously in the gig economy platform. The results of this paper are meant to help researchers in the future who want to study the continuous engagement of independent workers in the gig economy platform.