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I have a hard time believing this story, not because the technological explination doesn't make sense but because it is my understanding that there is no shorta

• wutbrodo 6y ago
  The articles I'm reading from that Google search refer to drivers who are FTEs or have set contracts (eg 10-hour shifts with quotas). By contrast, this article is talking about the just-in-time, on-the-fly gig-work market, like lyft and uber's labor markets. This is pretty clear from the fact that it's not really possible for an employer to overwork a gig worker without the gig worker's enthusiastic consent, since they explicitly choose each marginal contract they do (in fact, the theme of gig worker complaints in this area is usually against the restrictions placed on consecutive hours worked).
• crazygringo 6y ago
  There's always slack in the system though. E.g. because of the randomness of when orders are ready let's say there's an average 15 minute wait for all the drivers, when things are running at full capacity. Well if you use this then you get, say, 2 minute waits, and since you're paid per-delivery, you make a bit more each day -- maybe you make 25% more deliveries. On the flip side, then drivers not using this might see their average waits grow to 20 or 25 or 30 min. For Amazon it's all the same though.