by dankeelan | Apr 14, 2026 | Europe, Featured, Gig Workers
Every day, food-delivery workers cross Paris and Bordeaux in all weather, working long hours for pay well below France’s minimum wage. For most, this work provides their only source of income. A new survey of around 1,000 workers in France who deliver food for...
by dankeelan | Apr 7, 2026 | Gig Workers, Taxes, Tips
About 1 in 10 American workers are earning a living as a gig worker. That means they find their customers through Lyft, DoorDash, TaskRabbit and other digital platforms, or do another form of what the IRS and others call “on-demand work.” As a certified public...
by dankeelan | Mar 31, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Gig Workers
The food delivery service is now offering a new slate of short assignments that pay workers to photograph shelves, film chores and record conversations in exchange for cash, according to a press release. The new offering, called Tasks, lives both as a standalone app...
by dankeelan | Mar 24, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Gig Workers
DoorDash is starting to offer gigs beyond delivering food and other orders, the company said on Thursday. Dubbed DoorDash “tasks,” the gigs involve taking photos of store shelves to monitor what’s out-of-stock or helping a self-driving delivery...
by dankeelan | Mar 17, 2026 | Featured, Gig Workers, Pay
The gig economy has grown to include apps from Uber to Instacart. They don’t all pay the same. Average hourly pay on the apps varied in 2025, according to data analytics company Gridwise, which analyzed about 1 billion tasks across ride-hailing, delivery, and...
by dankeelan | Mar 10, 2026 | China, Gig Workers
“Flexible employment” has become a catch-all term in China’s labour market. Under current standards, it covers almost anyone working more than one hour a week for pay without a standard full-time labour contract. This includes freelancers, platform-based gig workers,...
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