Awign partners with Kerala Development and Innovation Strategic Council to boost employment in the state

~Collaborates with Govt of Kerala to boost employment in the growing gig economy~

 

Trivandrum, August 3, 2022: Awign, India's largest tech-enabled work fulfilment platform has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the K-DISC, Government of Kerala's Development and Innovation Strategic Council to provide employment opportunities on its platform for the youth of Kerala.

Transforming the Future of Work, the gig economy has the potential to impact 23.5 million workers in the next eight years, making up 4.1 per cent of the total livelihood in India. The partnership will expand the potential for over 3.95 lakh+ youth registered on K-DISC's Digital Workforce Management System (DWMS) to apply to Awign's gigs spread across 8 core business functions.

 

The collaboration comes in line with Kerala Knowledge Economy mission, launched by K-DISC, which aims to provide employment to 20 lakh people over the next five years in various sectors and job verticals. As per the MoU, Awign will accommodate candidates registered on DWMS platform on its projects with leading enterprises in verticals such as auditing, diligence, invigilation, proctoring, last-mile operations, business development, and digital gigs.

Speaking on the initiative, Annanya Sarthak, Co-Founder & CEO, Awign said "Gig economy has bolstered the landscape of employment opportunities across skill levels in India, while impacting livelihoods and enabling social mobility for the beneficiaries. The collaboration with K-DISC will enable us to expand our supply pool in Kerala and empower the youth in the state to gain a sustainable source of income."

Dr K.M Abraham, Executive Vice Chairperson, K-DISC commented "Kerala has always been ahead of the curve to adopt evolving technologies and foster partnerships which are conducive to social and economic development in the state. We are delighted to partner with Awign to further boost the prospect of employment for Kerala's youth and catalyse economic growth in the state/ Kerala's transformation as a Knowledge Economy." 

 

The partnership will also open up upskilling opportunities for Kerala’s youth on Awign's platform, which aims to solve the challenge of unemployment and skill gap in India. Since inception, Awign has been on a mission to solve the challenge of unemployment in India, by employing a distributed gig workforce to carry out core business functions for enterprises.

About Awign

Awign is India's largest tech-led enterprise gig platform, founded in 2016 by IIT Ropar alumni Annanya Sarthak, Gurpreet Singh, and Praveen Kumar Sah. With over 1 million gig partners and 100+ large marquee enterprises as customers, including TCS, Byjus, Swiggy, Aditya Birla, and Infosys, the company's vision is to predominantly 'gigify' core enterprise work and variablise large enterprises' PnLs.

Translated literally from Sanskrit, Awign means removal of obstacles. The company is committed to helping enterprises run their businesses at scale by solving end-to-end outcome-based execution along with discovery, deployment, and payroll management. By 2025, the firm expects 120,000+ Awign champions to achieve 300,000,000+ tasks per day, with a 100 percent CAGR and more than 95 percent platform adoption by clients, suppliers, and internal teams.

Currently, Awign offers 8 core enterprise functions spanning across sectors such as Assessment Industry, Media and entertainment, AI/ML Data Operations, Automotive, Electrical, Construction, FMCD, and many more. As part of the digital gigs, the company offers services ranging from tele-calling, online proctoring, content & data operations, and business development. Awign also offers auditing, due diligence, exam invigilation, and last-mile delivery as part of the hyperlocal gigs.

In addition, the company launched another business unit named Awign Expert in April 2021. Awign Expert helps businesses hire, assess, and manage high skilled contractual and gig talent across niche profiles of tech, marketing, finance, data science, and human resources.

Furthermore, to continue pursuing its vision of solving every core function of an enterprise through the gig economy, the company has built a no-code platform. Under this, any workflow in the world can be configured without writing a single line of code, thereby, making Awign an execution partner for enterprises and gig partners.

The vision for the future growth of Awign is intrinsically rooted in the company’s values – upskill people with the right tools to drive them towards work fulfillment.