Skynesher | E+ | Getty Images New government data shows a surprisingly strong job market for the month of January. But there are signs of weakness in the labor market, based on tens of thousands of workers who have been laid off since 2024 started. U.S. employers announced 82,307 job cuts in January, up from … Read more
Platform workers can no longer be fired automatically by algorithms, according to new European Union rules agreed today in a sweeping reform of the gig economy that will affect Uber drivers and Deliveroo couriers. “Now we have a proper system, which is something that doesn’t exist anywhere else around the world,” said Elisabetta Gualmini, an … Read more
A trade union that won a landmark case against Uber in the UK’s Supreme Court had a “culture of abuse and toxicity,” with an internal power struggle threatening to paralyze its operations, according to a damning independent report obtained by WIRED. The report into the App Drivers and Couriers Union, or ADCU, which was commissioned … Read more
“Our advertising campaign simply puts certified facts about the company in the public domain,” says Uber spokesperson Nixon. “Uber supports a strong and enforceable directive that ensures platform workers maintain the independence they want and receive the protections they deserve, such as minimum wage, holiday and sick pay.” What’s at stake for Uber with the … Read more
In 2016, Oskarina Fuentes got a tip from a friend that seemed too good to be true. Her life in Venezuela had become a struggle: Inflation had hit 800 percent under President Nicolás Maduro, and the 26-year-old Fuentes had no stable job and was balancing multiple side hustles to survive. Her friend told her about … Read more
However when this doesn’t occur, firms desperately rework their fashions. When they should curb spending, or once they wrestle to lift new funding, advertising is the very first thing they minimize. Demand drops, creating an oversupply of employees on the platform. “And the extreme provide on the platforms feels the pinch. That’s the standard cycle … Read more
Are you utilizing generative AI at Uber? AI is a part of the Uber DNA. We use massive fashions to foretell your ETA, to course of paperwork that drivers add, to foretell your subsequent order on Uber Eats, or to foretell whether or not somebody needs an UberX driver or Consolation, Black, or Electrical. With … Read more