As the report found, despite the work of outsourced workers being essential to keeping tech companies in business, the divisions between them and direct staff are stark. Subcontractors make 75 cents on the direct employees’ dollar, while frequently lacking paid time off, health insurance, job security or the prospect of career advancement. They are... See more

For example, the exploitation that tech companies euphemistically call "gig work" relies on minimum wage stagnation and the collapse of social mobility. Grubhub stealing drivers' tips, or Uber and Lyft spending hundreds of millions of dollars in the California Prop. 22 fight to ensure that they could continue denying benefits to their drivers both... See more

The point of AI isn't to make workers more productive, it's to make them weaker when they bargain with their bosses. Another of Bindley's sources went through eight rounds of interviews with a company, received an offer, countered with a request for 12% more than the offer, and had the job withdrawn, because "the company didn’t want to move ahead... See more

While the gig model delivers real benefits to customers in terms of convenience and low prices, the paradigm exists in a legal gray area in terms of worker classification, depriving workers of minimum wage protection, workers’ compensation, health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.