by dankeelan | Dec 14, 2021 | Gig Workers, Technology, U.S. Economy
Sixteen percent of Americans have earned money doing household chores and running errands for other people via online apps and websites, according to the Pew Research Center. If people are younger, non-white and poorer, they are more likely to have done online...
by dankeelan | Dec 14, 2021 | Featured, Gig Workers, Safety
In a major new report on the state of gig work, 16% of U.S. adults tell Pew Research that they’ve earned money through an online gig platform in the past year. Among those, one in three say it’s become their primary job, and nearly 60% add that the income...
by dankeelan | Dec 14, 2021 | Featured, Gig Workers, Technology
Pa Edrissa Manjang, an Uber driver in the UK, spent a year of his life working for the ride-hailing company before he was abruptly fired by an algorithm. “It wasn’t good at all,” Manjang said in an interview with Worker Info Exchange. “It felt like most of the time...
by dankeelan | Dec 7, 2021 | Gig Workers, U.S. Economy, Women
The gig economy is a growing trend for anyone hoping to control their schedule or make a little extra money, and more than ever, women are seizing the opportunities. For example, the number of women earning on the Uber app has increased nearly 80% since the beginning...
by dankeelan | Dec 7, 2021 | Featured, Gig Workers, Safety
A study of 1,000 gig economy workers found that of the 59 per cent who have been injured at work, 85 per cent were unable to work for an average of five weeks. But 60 per cent claim this was unpaid, with more than one in 10 admitting they should have taken time off...
by dankeelan | Dec 7, 2021 | Featured, Gig Workers, Unions
On October 16, an unknown number of drivers for grocery delivery service Instacart went on strike. These shoppers, as Instacart calls its independent contractors, vowed to forgo logging onto the app that provides their dispatches. Other drivers who couldn’t afford to...
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