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Passage: The gig economy was pitched as a liberation from the rigid nine-to-five schedule, promising workers the freedom to log on and off at will. In practice, algorithmic pay structures that reward drivers and couriers who accept nearly every ride or delivery request have recreated many of the pressures of traditional shift work, minus the legal protections, minimum wage guarantees, and collective bargaining rights that decades of labour law had built around conventional employment.
- A. Gig work offers more freedom than traditional employment because workers can log on and off whenever they wish.
- B. Algorithmic incentive structures have pushed gig work back toward the pressures of shift work, but without the legal protections traditional employment provides.
- C. Labour law has successfully extended minimum wage guarantees to gig economy workers.
- D. Drivers and couriers universally prefer traditional employment over gig work.
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Answer: (B) Algorithmic incentive structures have pushed gig work back toward the pressures of shift work, but without the legal protections traditional employment provides.
The passage's core movement is: promised freedom → but algorithmic pay structures recreate shift-work pressures → without traditional labour protections. Option (B) captures both halves (recreated pressure + lost protections). (A) states only the initial promise, ignoring the passage's main point; (C) contradicts the passage, which says protections were NOT extended; (D) is an unsupported overgeneralisation.
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