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Une cour californienne intime à Uber de requalifier ses chauffeurs en employés - 13 août 2020
Le procureur de Californie reproche à Uber et à Lyft, les deux leaders américains du transport avec chauffeur, d’imposer des statuts précaires à leurs conducteurs.
La déclaration a le mérite d’être directe : les « arguments bidon » d’Uber et Lyft ne tiennent pas la route, a dit, mardi 11 août, le procureur général de la (...)
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California Judge Rules Uber and Lyft to Immediately Classify Drivers as Employees - 11 août 2020
The court issued a preliminary injunction, using harsh language about the rideshare companies’ “prolonged and brazen refusal to comply with California law."
A California court issued a preliminary injuction on Monday, ordering Uber and Lyft to immediately reclassify Uber and Lyft ride-share drivers as employees, in (...)
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Automatic for the Bosses - 17 juillet 2020
Workers may be more affected by robots taking their bosses’ jobs than their own
Generally speaking, the four economic sectors in the U.S. that rely most heavily on human labor are, in order of most people employed : retail, fast food, health care, and clerical office work. These are jobs that involve interacting — (...)
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Il est temps d’interroger l’ubérisation de la société - 6 juin 2020
Pouvons-nous continuer à vivre et à consommer en mettant notre organisation et nos protections sociales en danger ? C’est ce que se demande le livre « Désubériser, reprendre le contrôle ».
Cette introduction est extraite du livre Désubériser, reprendre le contrôle écrit par Franck Bonot, Odile Chagny et Mathias Dufour sous (...)
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Uber, Lyft and Airbnb cut thousands of jobs as pandemic batters Silicon Valley - 10 mai 2020
The economic fallout from the coronavirus has come to Silicon Valley, with major tech firms announcing layoffs in recent weeks.
On Wednesday, Uber became the latest company to announce cuts, revealing in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that it will lay off 3,700 workers – roughly 14% of its (...)
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A Brief History of the Gig - 28 avril 2020
Where does the gig economy come from ?
In early 2012, San Francisco taxi drivers began to raise the alarm at organizing meetings and city hearings about “bandit tech cabs” pilfering their fares. “I’ll sit at a hotel line, and I see one of these guys in their own car come up, hailed by some guy’s app, and they’ll turn (...)
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Uber and Lyft Are Searching for Lifelines - The New York Times - 22 avril 2020
The ride-hailing competitors started the year with optimism. Now, like most other companies, they’re trying to survive the cratering economy.
OAKLAND, Calif. — After Seattle became the first major city in the United States to experience a widespread coronavirus outbreak in March, Uber’s business there plunged between (...)
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Pandemic Erodes Gig Economy Work - The New York Times - 22 avril 2020
Gig companies promoted their flexible hours as an economic lifeline for workers. In the coronavirus outbreak, it has been anything but.
SAN FRANCISCO — It was just after 11 a.m. last Wednesday when Jaime Maldonado, 51, pulled his rented Nissan into a lot outside San Francisco International Airport. He figured he (...)
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Le Covid-19 va-t-il précipiter la chute d’Uber, Deliveroo et Lyft ? | korii. - 21 avril 2020
Le chiffre d’affaires des applications de VTC s’effondre et Deliveroo se tourne vers Amazon.
Entre -60 et -70% d’activité. À Seattle, première grande ville américaine touchée par le Covid-19, l’activité d’Uber s’est effondrée –logique lorsque la plupart des gens restent chez eux. Un mois plus tard, ses actionnaires redoutent (...)
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Deliveroo warning of collapse paves way for Amazon investment | Business | The Guardian - 21 avril 2020
UK competition watchdog provisionally backs tech giant’s stake after courier firm warned it could go bust
UK competition authorities have provisionally cleared Amazon’s investment in Deliveroo after the takeaway delivery firm warned it could collapse because of the coronavirus crisis.
The takeaway firm told the (...)
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An uncertain future for workers - 30 mars 2020
DETROIT, Mich. — There’s no better symbol of what the American worker’s life used to look like than Detroit : A stable, lifelong career at a booming factory, a union membership and a pension.
The big picture : Workers’ lives in the future won’t look like that. Already, new technologies and the gig economy are breaking (...)
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Coronavirus Exposes Workers to the Risks of the Gig Economy | WIRED - 15 mars 2020
Drivers for Uber and Lyft in Seattle say demand for rides has plummeted, and they have few workplace benefits to fall back on.
For the past nine years, Mandolin Noir has taken care of other people’s pets around Seattle, often working through companies like Rover and Wag. The work is steady ; she visits the dogs (...)
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Coronavirus Outbreak : What Happens to the Gig Economy ? - The Atlantic - 7 mars 2020
The shadow of the new coronavirus finally reached American shores this week, as markets jittered downward and new cases crept up. The scope of any outbreak here is not clear, but experts suspect that the virus will become widespread. While the disease, known as COVID-19, is a global phenomenon, the response to it (...)
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AB 5 is already changing how Uber works for California drivers and riders - Los Angeles Times - 6 mars 2020
For years, Uber drivers have had a few requests. They’ve wanted to be able to see where passengers were going before agreeing to take them. They’ve wanted to know exactly how much Uber was keeping from each fare. Above all, they’ve wanted to make more money.
Uber’s frequent response, when it deigned to respond at all (...)
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Drivers Feel Abandoned by Uber and Lyft as Coronavirus Pandemic Emerges - VICE - 2 mars 2020
A lack of communication and Uber’s past method of tackling Covid-19 doesn’t inspire confidence.
There have been countless warnings about how the continued spread of the coronavirus and the disease it causes, Covid-19, could dramatically affect daily life—shattering the stock market, changing our politics, and even (...)
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When your boss is an algorithm - 20 février 2020
In the gig economy, companies such as Uber and Deliveroo manage workers via their phones. But is this liberating or exploitative ?
The small London side street reverberates with the growl of motorbikes and the shriek of horns. A young man yells hoarsely into a megaphone : “They’re gonna be disrupted, yeah ! (...)
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Données : poison et remède pour les travailleurs des plateformes ? | LINC - 19 février 2020
La poursuite des intérêts des plateformes, plus que de simples intermédiaires entre une offre et une demande de travail, peut se faire au détriment des conditions de travailleurs indépendants. A cet égard, les données personnelles collectées constituent à la fois une source d’aliénation et un levier de négociation (...)
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La bulle des trottinettes électriques est-elle en train d’éclater ? | korii. - 15 janvier 2020
Lime se prépare à licencier 14% de ses effectifs et à se retirer de douze villes.
Uber ou Lyft ont peut-être servi d’exemple. Malgré l’hypercroissance, les géants du ride hailing peinent à convaincre les financiers de leur capacité à dégager des profits durables et se sont pris les pieds, en 2019, dans des introductions (...)
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What Does California’s New Data Privacy Law Mean ? Nobody Agrees - 29 décembre 2019
The statute was meant to standardize how companies disclose their consumer data-mining practices. So far, not so much.
Millions of people in California are now seeing notices on many of the apps and websites they use. “Do Not Sell My Personal Information,” the notices may say, or just “Do Not Sell My Info.”
But (...)
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Uber and Lyft finally admit they’re making traffic congestion worse in cities - 19 décembre 2019
Ride-hailing accounts for up to 14 percent of vehicle miles traveled in some cities, according to a study commissioned by Uber and Lyft
Uber and Lyft have long argued that ride-hailing apps have the potential to make cities better by easing traffic and reducing personal car ownership. And every time a study (...)
