How an Uber Eats worker created UberCheats, a web app that computed the actual distance a courier traveled, after suspecting algorithmic error and underpayment
A tech-savvy Uber Eats worker was sick of the algorithms that controlled his day. So he decided to fight back X: @mrbrownsir , @hoofnagle , @ftmag , @michaelezra , @madhumita29 , @karenojeffrey , @le...
Some workers say on-demand home services startup Urban Company, which helped Indian women enter the gig economy, pushed them out for not meeting steep targets
Home services platform Urban Company helped Indian women get into the gig economy. Now they say it's setting impossible targets and then abandoning them. X: @varshaabansal , @peterguest , @ashiqueali...
How on-demand home services startup Urban Company became the biggest employer of women in India's gig economy, creating a rare opportunity for social mobility
By disrupting the age-old home services industry, the Indian unicorn offered many women a rare opportunity for social mobility. Tweets: @karan_singhs , @bambaiyya__ , @soniafaleiro , and @vickiturk Tw...
Tech companies' offer to help employees sidestep abortion bans does not cover gig workers, temporary workers, and subcontractors, deepening the workforce divide
Caitlin Harrington / Wired : Tweets: @carnage4life , @datascibae , @caitharr , and @hypervisible Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The other shoe drops. Tech companies will cover abortion trave...
Interviews with over a dozen rapid grocery delivery workers in India show they spent months healing after road accidents and had to pay their own medical bills
globally. Pressures to work in unsafe conditions, lack of access to health insurance, and wage theft are at just the tip of the iceberg. https://twitter.com/... Shubham Agarwal / @phonesoldier : Sever...
Just Eat outsources 6,000 of its riders and drivers working across six UK cities to Dutch staffing agency Randstad, to comply with stricter UK employment rules
Morgan Meaker / Wired : Tweets: @wired and @tashabernal Tweets: @wired : As delivery apps struggle with staffing shortages and a new wave of legislation that is forcing them to assume more costs for ...
Survey of ~5,000 gig workers across 15 countries: over 60% say they are financially satisfied but most want out of the job within a year
Survey of ~5,000 gig workers across 15 countries: over 60% say they are financially satisfied but most want out of the job within a year
A survey of nearly 5,000 gig workers in 15 countries compares the experience of platform work worldwide. — Platforms were supposed to set workers free.
The possible Grab-Gojek merger has alarmed SE Asian labor groups, who fear the merger will provide little incentive to improve the working conditions of drivers
Rest of World : Tweets: @ozmarshall , @_meher , and @findingsen Tweets: Marshall Hughes / @ozmarshall : The most likely source of reform in the #gigeconomy is customer activism, and there is no chanc...
Report: most major tech companies in Silicon Valley have kept paying their thousands of unionized blue-collar workers for now, but future remains uncertain
Cyrus Farivar / NBC News : Tweets: @laszlobock , @carnage4life , @nbcnews , @suchipahi , @_jack_poulson , @nbcnewstech , @unitehere_19 , @jrbinsv , @gigworkersrise , @cfarivar , @alexhanna , and @iso...