# Gig Platforms
**Domain:** Labor Systems / Platform Governance
**Doc Type:** System Class
**Maturity:** Developed
**Related:** [[Algorithmic Scheduling]], [[Continuous Availability]], [[The Fissured Workplace]], [[Infrastructure as Governance]], [[Schedule and Loop]]
## Definition
**Gig platforms** mediate discrete tasks or services through digital marketplaces, ranking, dispatch, pricing and reputation systems.
## Schedule–Loop Context
They can divide the shift into continuously offered units while coordinating workers through models and incentives rather than a shared workplace clock. This joins temporal desynchronization to algorithmic governance and diffuse employment responsibility.
## Backlinks
- [[Schedule and Loop]]
- [[articles/Schedule and Loop|Schedule and Loop]]