>"Last year, more than $200 million was spent on campaigning for a state proposition that ensured workers like Uber and Lyft drivers were considered independent _...Read More_

>"Surveys of food deliverers and others who work for app-based services illustrate the hazards they have faced during the pandemic."

>"Riders say their pay rates often don’t include time spent waiting for orders or time taken _...Read More_

ARMIN SAMII HAD been biking for UberEats for a few weeks last July when he accepted a delivery he estimated would take 20 minutes, tops. But the app led him up one of the steepest hills in Pittsburgh, a 4-mile one-way trip that clocked in _...Read More_

Some clever Amazon Flex drivers had uncovered the scheme by tipping themselves in specific amounts to see if those tips would show up in their pay.

>"The Prop 22 episode reveals the tectonic shift undergone by American liberalism—and the Democratic Party—since the 1980s."

Meanwhile, health care stipends provided under the new Prop 22–devised “benefits” program are proving to be a pittance. Uber has offered no more than $400 a month toward health insurance for drivers who hit maximum hours standards, a small _...Read More_

Amazon Flex drivers are using automated software, third-party apps and other tools to get jobs. Flex drivers are contract workers who use their own vehicles to deliver packages to customers’ doorsteps. Drivers say competition has _...Read More_

"Got into a thing with the Fresh Grocer lady over coffee filters. It honestly wasn’t a biggie, but why say they’re on sale if they aren’t, all I’m sayin’...”

"The indignities of the gig economy are well established at this point, as the laissez-faire labor practices of companies like Uber, Instacart, Door Dash, and Lyft draw more critical scrutiny. Bain, Cotton, and their fellow shoppers are _...Read More_

“The point of Airbnb Magazine (...) is not to sell magazines, or to win readers. It’s to get people to “interact with the brand,” a mission that would seem to require selling magazines and winning readers. But brand interaction is so vague _...Read More_

Is the subsidisation of companies such as Uber and Wework simply aimed at monopolising markets and driving down labor costs before Venture Capitalists can exit at huge profits by dumping on retail? I personally see the gig economy as _...Read More_

"Yep, during the finale of this year’s show, which took place on a set built to resemble the rooftops of Paris, a plucky internet star famed for her fashion show stunts leapt up from the crowd and joined the procession, dressed in something _...Read More_

"Think of content moderation right now and how it’s sensationalized as something horrific and terrible to do. From the perspective of the workers, it’s a job. And it’s a job that actually takes quite a bit of creativity and insight and _...Read More_

deliveroo retreats services in germany "where consumers don’t order as often as their counterparts in the U.K. or the Middle East, and where riders can go on strike and form unions", tomorrow (16th). blink and you miss it in the gig economy