Ganga News · @ganganews
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Stewart · @Willie1foot
148 followers · 236 posts · Server mastodon.au

If your business has to underpay your workers or steal from them in order to survive, YOUR BUSINESS ISN’T SUSTAINABLE AND SHOULDN’T SURVIVE. Simple.

#wagetheft #gigwork #labourhire

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csh · @cshlan
267 followers · 5741 posts · Server dawdling.net

Delivering my first pumpkin spice lattes of the season!

#delivery #gigwork #pumpkinspice

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Flipboard Tech Desk · @TechDesk
7189 followers · 901 posts · Server flipboard.social

Online delivery and ride-hailing companies like Careem, Bykea and Foodpanda have featured female gig workers in their ad campaigns, especially around International Women's Day. A group of women in Pakistan speak out about their experience of these businesses backtracking on gender-based incentives that made the work so attractive to them.

flip.it/093EZt

#gigwork #pakistan

Last updated 1 year ago

Ben Waber · @bwaber
684 followers · 2559 posts · Server hci.social

Next was an interesting conversation with Uma Rani on the role of digital labor on work across the globe at Alliance Manchester Business School. Rani provides a clear view of the benefits these platforms can bring to a variety of workers but also the challenges they bring to some and society more broadly youtube.com/watch?v=iv6M9GqkDB (10/12)

#platforms #gigwork

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Levi Sumagaysay · @levisu
863 followers · 129 posts · Server sfba.social

"Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City" makes a case for how racial inequality and failing policies in Washington, D.C., and other cities have helped the rise of Uber. I talked with two of the three authors of the book, which comes out today.

marketwatch.com/story/uber-pit

#gigeconomy #gigwork #uber

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Ben Waber · @bwaber
651 followers · 2387 posts · Server hci.social

Next was an intriguing slate of talks at @FAccT on algorithms and markets. I particularly liked the talks by Daman Deep Singh (gig driver assignment) and Aditya Karan (differential pricing auditing). Highly recommend youtube.com/watch?v=8WtN3burN- (5/8)

#facct2023 #aiethics #gigwork

Last updated 1 year ago

Cory Doctorow's linkblog · @pluralistic
45332 followers · 43237 posts · Server mamot.fr

When we talk about the abuses of , there's some obvious targets, like , where two workers are paid different rates for the same job, in order to trick occasional gig-workers to give up their other sources of income and become dependent on the app:

pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/alg

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2023/07/30/com

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#gigwork #algorithmicwagediscrimination

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Kevin Karhan :verified: · @kkarhan
1298 followers · 87886 posts · Server mstdn.social

@aral Eeyupp...

Either one has to sell their soul to some corporation or suffer...

No matter if it's [] , [Any fast food job] or whatever...

#grindwork #ubereats #gigwork

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csh · @cshlan
237 followers · 3870 posts · Server dawdling.net

I don't take many pictures lately. So today I have one and couldn't resist 😁

#silentsunday #gigwork #delivery

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steve dustcircle ⍻ · @dustcircle
286 followers · 9273 posts · Server masto.ai
Levi Sumagaysay · @levisu
844 followers · 124 posts · Server sfba.social

A nursing assistant wrote me about $21K in wages she says she had been owed by a shift-booking app for more than a year. Two months after I got involved, she says she was offered a settlement — on the condition that she stop talking with me.

marketwatch.com/story/clipboar

#gigwork #healthcare #labor #wages

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BC Info Bot · @bcinfo
495 followers · 35151 posts · Server mastodon.roitsystems.ca
csh · @cshlan
199 followers · 3158 posts · Server dawdling.net

Uber has this rewards system. I'm perpetually at the lowest level. Every time I open the app it tells me I could get my (useless to me) rewards back if I "improved" my "service".

This is absolutely wrong and hilarious. My service is perfect (5 stars atm). What they want is for me to take more low paying orders. Even the cash reward available at the highest level adds less than 50 cents per order. But I'd be losing more than that per order if I accepted enough to get it 🤷🏻‍♀️

#gigwork #delivery

Last updated 1 year ago

Steven Saus [he/him] · @StevenSaus
458 followers · 8597 posts · Server faithcollapsing.com

From 14 Jun: The National Labor Relations Board issued a new ruling Tuesday that makes it easier for Uber and Lyft drivers, construction workers, home health aides, and strippers to organize and join unions. - washingtonpost.com/business/20

#gigworkers #gigwork #union

Last updated 1 year ago

Primit1v3 · @primit1v3
140 followers · 284 posts · Server ioc.exchange

I have been thrust into the instability of ...

I'm looking for type

If you're a content creator or just have a project that needs an older male Mid-Western American voice, please contact me to arrange a sample.
I can also assist in researching topics.

I am also open to suggestions for ANY that will help me cover impending utility bills.

Please boost.

#unemployment #voiceover #narration #work #online #gig #employment #workfromhome #gigwork #over50 #videos #documentary #history #howto #educational #meditation #podcast #conversational #linux #debian #opensource #foss #privacy #security #locks #locksport #bodypiercing #dogs #TrueCrime #etc

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Fidget (she/her) · @fidget
62 followers · 621 posts · Server birdinter.net

Hopefully great news for delivery drivers in New York City, let’s see how the corporations respond.

From Engadget: “New York City sets an $18 per hour minimum wage for food delivery workers”

engadget.com/new-york-city-set

#gigwork #news #nyc

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csh · @cshlan
192 followers · 2668 posts · Server dawdling.net

If I had a nickel for every time I've delivered one biscuit to somebody from a chicken place...

I'd have two nickels.

Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice.

#gigwork #delivery

Last updated 1 year ago

Ben Waber · @bwaber
581 followers · 1944 posts · Server hci.social

Next was a great talk by Floor Fiers on barriers to participating in the gig economy at the @communitydata. While gig platforms are ostensibly available to all, Fiers interrogates what skills are required to be successful on these platforms and the implications for training and platform design. Highly recommend youtube.com/watch?v=GBF9pX09LL (4/7)

#gigwork

Last updated 1 year ago

csh · @cshlan
189 followers · 2566 posts · Server dawdling.net

Just got a 20 cent tip....

I mean, the total pay was worth the trip or I wouldn't have accepted it.

But, like, 20 cents. Why bother at all?

#gigwork #delivery

Last updated 1 year ago