Posts tagged "uber"

Australian instant delivery contender Milkrun has launched a new next-day grocery service, joining other similar apps worldwide in the scramble to tack new revenue streams onto the costly business model.

Turo is the world's largest car-sharing marketplace, where car owners list their personal vehicles on the site while drivers can rent them out for a series of days or weeks.

What is to be made of the new bosses settling into workplaces across all sectors: the algorithm managers?

Not even two weeks have passed since Uber was hacked, and now Optus, one of Australia’s leading telecommunications companies, has suffered a similar, much more public fate. 

Care work platform Mable will "simplify" opt-in superannuation deductions for gig workers as the government readies its own reform agenda.

Uber is muscling in on the health sector with the launch of a new transport service that allows doctors to organise a ride for their patients to and from GPs and hospitals up to 30 days in advance.

Uber used its billions to fight a guerilla war against unions, regulators and governments, as 124,000 leaked documents reveal.

More than 124,000 leaked emails, texts, invoices and internal documents show how the company flouted the law and put its drivers at risk — all in pursuit of endless expansion.

There are good reasons to aim to regulate gig economy workers as contractors, rather than attempting to bring them under the umbrella of being employees.

Uber Australia's agreement with the Transport Workers’ Union is a statement of principles that re-regulate work in the Australian rideshare and food delivery industry.

Despite ride sharing largely returning to pre-pandemic levels and Uber Eats gaining hundreds of millions of users during the pandemic, Uber’s market value has slumped from US$117 billion to US$42 billion.

Uber has launched a new feature in Australia offering women and non-binary drivers the option to accept trip requests from women passengers only, if they choose.