<p>Saturation Table. (Source: Authors’ composition).</p>

Platform providers can utilise these insights to design reinforcement oriented motivational features such as informational feedback systems and transparent performance metrics. The motivation typology offers guidance in developing engagement strategies tailored to different motivational profiles, which will foster economic growth aligned with SDG 8, ensuring decent employment opportunities. Limitations include the focus on the Sri Lankan context which limits the findings to South Asia while restricting broader generalisability.

Future research could benefit from employing representative samples across various cultural contexts. This study contributes to the limited empirical work surrounding the psychological mechanisms linking digital skills and gig worker engagement. It offers new insights through the introduction of a motivation interplay matrix and typology which provides a framework for understanding gig worker engagement.</p></div>