by dankeelan | Oct 5, 2021 | Gig Workers, Technology, Tips, Tools
As a gig worker, the most essential aspect of your job will be to meet a plethora of deadlines. If you miss deadlines, you don’t get paid, and you’ll quickly lose customers. You want to be known as a reliable worker so that the request and recommendations continue to...
by dankeelan | Oct 5, 2021 | Featured, Finance, Gig Workers, Tips
Detroit bass player Grover “GT” Tigue knows too well about the wildly varying rhythms of the gig economy. Tigue has been a musician for the past 21 years, but he saw his bookings crash for roughly a year during the pandemic. “I didn’t start gigging in 2021 until about...
by dankeelan | Sep 28, 2021 | Gig Workers, Technology
When Londoner Rich Mason signed up as a bicycle food delivery rider in 2017, he found the long hours, poor pay and lack of communication from management “jaw-dropping” – so he started his own delivery app instead. One of his proudest moments was in June this year when...
by dankeelan | Sep 28, 2021 | Featured, Gig Workers, Safety
The lives of delivery workers in major US cities are dangerous, surprisingly expensive, and largely only possible because of the support app-based laborers offer each other. But a new editorial series from Rest of World shows that the experiences of US-based gig...
by dankeelan | Sep 21, 2021 | Future of Work, Gig Workers, Management
Now, more than ever, is the time to use the services of freelancers: the growth of the market for freelancers is increasing competition between them and lowering the prices for services. Indeed, some tasks are more accessible to outsource to a freelancer than...
by dankeelan | Sep 21, 2021 | Featured, Gig Workers, Technology
The Gig Workers Collective — representing a body of about 13,000 Instacart shoppers — launched a #DeleteInstacart campaign, urging customers to delete the Instacart app as a show of solidarity with workers advocating for better treatment. The collective of...
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