Enlarge / A bicycle courier of grocery delivery company} “Gorillas” wears a backpack with the logo of the startup on his way to deliver purchases in Berlin. (credit: Tobias Schwarz | Getty) In May 2021, grocery delivery company Zapp moved into a small garage, squashed between red brick apartment buildings on a residential street called […]
An Uber and Lyft-backed consortium called a judge’s recent ruling a good “outrageous decision. ” Read More
Fidji Simo ran Facebook’s app with 1. 8 billion users. Now she’ll be grocery startup Instacart’s CEO. Read More
Enlarge / An Amazon Flex driver delivers an armload of packages in Cambridge, Mass., on Dec. 18, 2018. (credit: Pat Greenhouse | The Boston Globe | Getty Images) Locked gates, inclement weather, and bad selfies—all reasons drivers report that they were fired by the bots that apparently run human resources for Amazon’s Flex delivery program. […]
Uber has long battled to keep its drivers as independent contractors. But a landmark defeat in the U.K. may not be such a big deal after all. Read More
Enlarge (credit: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Unemployment in the US remains stubbornly high at 6.3 percent. Job growth has stalled, with 9.6 million fewer jobs in January than the same month a year earlier. But gig companies say they’re having trouble finding people to drive, pick up, and deliver for them. “I’m worried about […]
Enlarge / A DoorDash Inc. delivery person arranges an order in the back of a vehicle outside of a DoorDash Kitchens location in Redwood City, California. (credit: Bloomberg | Getty Images) A DoorDash driver named Jeffrey Fang was returning to his minivan in San Francisco after completing a delivery last week when he noticed a […]
Enlarge (credit: Brett_Hondow | Getty Images) California-based workers for food delivery app Grubhub have reacted angrily to changes to the platform which they say discourage tipping, saying they would wipe out the supposed benefits of new gig worker rules in the state. Last month, California passed Proposition 22, which though falling far short of the […]
What could a security web look just like for gig employees in the Internet-based market? It would offer health insurance, of course, along with a retirement program, sick leave{} worker and unemployment compensation. Plus it might be fair and mobile: A individual working part time for different businesses would have strong advantages that traveling with […]
Expand / Uber signals are observed August 20, 2020 in Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California. – Rideshare service competitions Uber and Lyft have been granted a temporary reprieve on August 20 from needing to reclassify motorists as workers at their home country of California from August 21. (Photo from Robyn Beck / […]