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E-commerce is expected to help seasonal hiring for gig roles surge by 20% this festival season: reports
The top gig roles that have been witnessing increased hiring are delivery executives, warehouse wor…
DoorDash is trying a new way of making deliveries — and it doesn't involve gig workers
DoorDash is using W2 employees to make some deliveries in Austin, Texas, and Fresno, California. Th…
Alex Bitter
Most DoorDash gig workers spend a surprisingly short time doing the job
DoorDash's gig workers are mostly women, millennial, and spend an average of less than four hours a…
Alex Bitter
Gig workers are writing essays for AI to learn from
Companies are increasingly hiring skilled humans to write training content for AI models as the tro…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
No Driver? No Problem! Waymo’s driverless robotaxis make Los Angeles debut — but what could the tech mean for India?
Alphabet's Waymo has launched its robotaxis in Los Angeles, marking a significant step for autonomo…
A gig worker explains how big deliveries from Home Depot and Tractor Supply make him more money
A gig delivery driver for Roadie said he makes money by delivering water heaters, mulch, and other …
Alex Bitter
Gig workers are fed up with being treated as second-class citizens by store workers
Gig delivery workers for Instacart and Walmart's Spark say they have to contend with testy workers …
Alex Bitter
Gig workers face a savings crisis for retirement
Robinhood is offering retirement accounts for gig workers on Grubhub, GoPuff, and TaskRabbit, but t…
Alex Bitter,Tim Paradis
Three gig workers explain how they got deactivated on apps from Doordash to Walmart's Spark
These delivery workers for Walmart Spark, Instacart, and DoorDash have been deactivated for bizarre…
Alex Bitter
Uber, Doordash, and other gig workers in Seattle may be about to face a pay reckoning
A proposal, drafted with the support of delivery companies, could roll back Seattle's PayUp law for…
Alex Bitter
Welcome to America's hottest comedy club: LinkedIn
'I've been watching porn at work for 20 years.' Meet the standup comedians satirizing your boss on …
Amanda Hoover
This college town is experimenting with giving low-income entrepreneurs and gig workers $12,672, no strings attached
A guaranteed basic-income program in Ann Arbor is giving small business owners $528 a month, no str…
Allie Kelly
Instacart, DoorDash, and other apps appear to be trying to roll back Seattle's new laws for gig workers
Instacart, Doordash and other delivery companies are trying to push back against Seattle's Pay Up l…
Alex Bitter
China's food delivery gig workers are driving a $208B business, but couriers have it as bad as factory workers
Despite China's food delivery business doubling in the last three years to $208B, the gig workers f…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
Gig workers explain how they got their accounts reactivated on Instacart and Uber Eats
Gig workers for Instacart and Uber Eats who've been deactivated can ask the companies for arbitrati…
Alex Bitter
Seattle's Instacart shoppers are having to go miles out of their way because of the new gig worker pay law
Instacart is adding miles to some Seattle deliveries to avoid stores within city limits — which wou…
Alex Bitter
Bots are some DoorDash and Walmart Spark delivery gig workers' dirty secret
Gig workers on delivery apps like DoorDash are turning to bots to claim high-paying orders as pay f…
Alex Bitter
Early SpaceX workers got stuck overnight on an ocean barge with a toxic spaceship, new book reports
Working at SpaceX in its early days was a "lifestyle," according to "Reentry." One time that includ…