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Does anyone actually consider glovo a real job? They really seem to try hard to avoid branding it as such.
by ryanlol 8y ago
Does anyone actually consider glovo a real job? They really seem to try hard to avoid branding it as such.
- jacquesm 8y agoHopefully not, they do motorcycle deliveries. But TNT Post and a whole pile of other companies use the same general strategy of avoiding employees at all cost to general detriment of tens of thousands of people that would otherwise be part of a large company and that are now left to fend for themselves. The 'gig economy' is one ugly aspect of the un-bundling of the social contract and this has only just begun. You can look forward to an ever larger number of jobs re-classed as independent contractor. This is already happening in health care, contracting, taxi driving and so on. The long term effects are most likely very negative but still over the horizon. Companies love it because they get all the benefits of having employees without the downsides.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoI see this to be a mirror of the trend of replacing products with services all across the board. Everyone keeps saying "opex is better than capex", but there's something really wrong about this. I can't put my finger exactly on what it is, but I feel it disenfranchises people.