As Coles and Woolworth turn to UberEats and DoorDash for fast deliveries, supermarket workers feel ‘the gig economy is getting closer’.
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Digital platform work is often seen to suit workers’ skills, interests and schedules. But it comes at a cost to their economic security and control over the work process.
Our five years of research reveals an industry facing push back from both workers and customers. Many workers we spoke with sought to leave the gig economy.
The company has managed to change some of its practices, but it is still butting heads with regulators and governments.
Rating services on ride and task apps disadvantage gig workers, whose future work assignments are affected by their ratings. Women workers are made vulnerable, and have to contend with harassment.
Uber Australia’s deal with the transport workers union signals the Albanese government won’t mess about with attempts to reclassify gig workers as employees.
Uber, the poster company of the gig economy, has agreed its Australian workers deserve more employee-like conditions. Why it has done this now isn’t too hard to work out.
When it comes to dealing with Uber’s difficult working conditions, Uber drivers are on their own.
The narrative of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is more aspiration than reality.
With customers and workers both being squeezed, what does the future look like?
A trial in France revealed how the platform’s algorithm established a subordination relationship between riders and the firm. Could we be witnessing the beginning of the end of “uberisation”?
The use of Airbnb to channel donations to Ukrainians illustrates both the potential and limitations of the so-called sharing economy.
A recent study highlights the precarious world of rideshare and delivery drivers during the pandemic, and their struggle to be heard as non-unionised contractors.
A new international report on climate change finds rapid changes could cut emissions from transportation by 80% to 90%. Three behavior change trends could bring big improvements.
Feudalism has been replaced by capitalism, and the new villeiny — or neo-villeiny — has emerged to reflect a relationship between a worker and an organization.
Gig workers are more stressed than other types of workers. Two experts explain coping strategies that are likely to help, and which to avoid.
Over 300 companies so far have closed stores, reassigned staff or halted sales in Russia in the two weeks since the invasion began.
The pandemic home-delivery boom is driving a push to automation and precarious work by Australian supermarkets.
It could push up prices and pay.
Gig work is entering almost every industry and changing the relationship between workers, employers, service providers and customers. But gig workers face new and unique challenges.
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Professor of Practice, Associate Dean, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Associate Professor UTS Centre for Business and Social Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of management, EMLV, Paris and Adjunct Fellow, University of Technology Sydney, University of Technology Sydney
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Neil G Sipe es Amigo de The Conversation.
Honorary Professor of Planning, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer and DECRA Fellow, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer - Management and Organisations, UWA Business School, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor. Durham University Business School, Durham University
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Research Manager, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior lecturer, The University of Western Australia
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Sessional Lecturer, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
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Lecturer, Universitas Indonesia
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication, and Information, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, UNSW Sydney
