Domestic workers, trade unions and activists attend a seminar on app-based workers’ issues conducted by Aajeevika Bureau in Mumbai.
| Photo Credit: Aajeevika Bureau
It is 8:30 a.m. Office-goers bustle outside Chembur’s Sandu Garden in Mumbai, while teens laze on swings and slides, doomscrolling through their phones. Elderly citizens and middle-aged men practise yoga or jog around the garden’s tracks as the city awakens to a new day.
Priti Saputre (40) looks alert, wearing a black shirt with the name of a quick-service app printed on the back, as she waits for a notification on her phone to get to work as a domestic worker. With six bookings a day, each up to 2 hours, Saputre endures 12-hour work days. She is paid every 15 days.
Published – October 26, 2026 05:20 am IST
