‘Gig workers are more relevant in hybrid model’

Large IT firms are warming up to gig workers alongside their regular workforce as the digital drive has accelerated the shift to a hybrid model. Wipro chairman Rishad Premji said the comfort of scale and dispersed talent base is becoming a reality unlike a year ago. In 2016, Wipro acquired TopCoder and Appirio which has 1.5 million freelance technologists on its platform....