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Can Employees Really Work However They Want?
A further complication is that ride-sharing companies typically treat drivers as independent contractors, not employees. This saves cost, but it also allows drivers to work for multiple ride-sharing organizations. In effect, a new entrant will not have to assemble a new pool of drivers. The entrepreneur can simply “borrow” the drivers already in th
... See moreFelix Oberholzer-Gee • Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance
The best employees have more options now than ever before, and they’re not going to work for companies that make them shave, get dressed, hop into a car or a crowded subway, and sit at a desk in an office five days a week with their headphones on trying to avoid distractions and get work done.
notboring.substack.com • We're Never Going Back
fewer jobs are like the full-time workplace-based industrial jobs around which social insurance systems were constructed. So it would be arbitrary to link social security to contributions from labour. This points to the need for a basic income system,
Guy Standing • The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class SPECIAL COVID-19 EDITION
Prop 22 is the California ballot proposition that would exempt app-based transportation and delivery companies from having to provide employee benefits (such as minimum wage, paid time off, and sick leave) to gig workers.
Li Jin • Uber and Instacart don’t represent Silicon Valley. Why we’re voting “No” on Prop 22
second, that they involved a choice.