Workers for a grocery delivery platform owned by U.S. retailer Target are striking to protest at the company’s new payment algorithm.
Shipt used to pay its workers a percentage of each order but the Alabama-based firm introduced a black-box computer program last month which weighs factors including drive times and peak shopping hours.
The company says the algorithm will compensate workers nationwide for the ‘effort’ put into each delivery.
But workers, many of whom are delivering groceries amid the coronavirus pandemic, fear it could be a pay-cut disguised as a technology upgrade.
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