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For years Jennell Lévêque was always early and steal from their phone in the hope that Amazon Flex would fall some changes for drivers of delivery and that would be enough to nab a fast. But since the 19-COVID pandemic, even with six applications for various open distribution platforms, has Lévêque difficult to get jobs by offering packages, meals or food. The Facebook group runs for Instacart workers, meanwhile, is inundated with requests from new customers who want to join. Before the pandemic, there were millions of people like Lévêque that could make a living, or at least deserves decent pocket money from work Concert: People from the airport going to isolated houses, offer dinner, via logos for foreigners to design half the world. But when the rate of US unemployment, 15%, and the International Monetary Fund, a decrease of 3% of the world economy is approaching you predict people who see left for earned income on the concert sink their revenue as more people compete for jobs. “Every week is getting worse with all platforms,” ​​said Leveque, confirmed their complaint to company figures. Odesk says he has seen the Freelance sign-ups increased by 50% since the pandemic began. Talkdesk, a service provider customers for a cost-effective platform launched gig, we got 10,000 new applications for the 10 days Gig work. Instacart hired 300,000 more workers in a month and said in late April that it plans to add more than 250,000. Although most people have groceries delivered, it has packages from Amazon and search online for their design and customer graphic requirements, the wave of new workers receive the law of supply and demand in the economy tip concert . Simply put, at least 36 million new unemployed in America only from mid-May it is time to make too many vital workers aspiring for the gig economy for many of them, and this can be irreversible, as companies adapt to the reality of a global Recession. In head count them desperate gig economy, the expansion of the labor force potential to drive longer to work and the prices all the way that workers can command. “The prices of DoorDash and Uber food are the lowest I’ve ever seen, but they are all bad right now,” says Leveque, there is a trend unfolding in recent weeks. How to Use Amazon applications flex their drivers to make their own delivery vehicles for the company, “drop”, or elimination process at a given time, and Lévêque and other drivers say that these orders be snapped up in a matter of seconds. Some Amazon Flex driver must sit in the parking lots near the Amazon camp taken in the hope this will help them beat the competition. It is updated here with our daily newsletter crown. Applications like Instacart send “offers” make the workers see how much food a customer ordered, how much they are paid, and what will be the top. In some applications, these offers are lower than ever, says Leveque. (Instacart says his customers 60% more per lot of orders worth almost complete because tips have almost doubled, and that, while they may not see the same volume of orders as before, the average number of lots is substantially remained as the same.) we talked Lévêque shot at $3 a grocery delivery service offering, because it was not worth the gas would need to use them. Another driver named Kevin, 43, who does not use his last name because he did not want to know his full-time job, that goes on the page, says Amazon Flex shifts are now paying $18-20 per hour, down from $28- $32 an hour prior to the pandemic. As more and more workers rush of applications, there is also an increase in people trying to use to make their despair. Hustlers start bots that use algorithms to hold jobs for people and thus potential workers see the bots for use, says Matthew Telles, a long-term buyer Instacart who have been outspoken about the defects of the platform. The so-called “bots Grabber” takes a series of jobs as they arrive, which means that only people who have installed the bots able to find work. the Instacart buyers pay a fee to use the bots, which are also a problem from services like Amazon Flex. “It has become a destination for these exploitative applications that force workers to pay just to get access,” says Telles Instacart particular. (Instacart says he may not use unauthorized third parties in an effort to more batches are to be fixed and that someone has found, will be disabled.) Delivery Driver as Lévêque have an advantage, they are only for jobs with people from their own competing geographic area. On sites like Fiverr and Odesk where people can sell different services such as logo design, digital marketing and narrator are competing with other workers from around the world. Anyone with an Internet connection can be used for these concerts streets, and the worst of the global economy in the wake of COVID-19, the more people on these sites in search of work, they flow. The World Bank estimates that COVID-19 is the first increase in due to global poverty by 1998. “It ‘a race to the bottom, honest,” says Melanie Nichols, a marketer who was 40 years for technology start-ups in Los freelance Angeles for seven years. With companies in the course of the pandemic to slow down, Nichols has created a Odesk account from England, where they are staying with family, and tried to earn some extra cash. Before the pandemic, may an hour for the customer between $100 to $150, they would meet in person or through referrals. On Odesk says, customers recruit jobs that require the same amount of work, but pay $50 per hour or less. this work is to receive almost impossible Nichols says that is applied by four 20 March, and heard it again. It led to a real paying gig that ended more work than when it was launched, and as Nichols should pay for 25 hours of work to 10 hours. “Odesk seems to be a good idea,” he says, “but I’d be curious to find people who actually make money from it.” Steven Lee notary, 24, is in the same situation. He worked as a graphic designer in media agency in Germany until the first company reduced hours and then released him. He started advertising on Fiverr for services such as the design of online ads, posters and business cards, but says that its low prices set in order to get all orders. “They made a lot of people in my area on the site,” said the notary. “There is a lot of supply, but not in great demand.” Sites like oDesk and Fiverr say that the demand is still there. Adam Ozimek, the economist Odesk chief says that a third of Fortune 500 companies now use the platform, and stable that the expense of the customer have been impressed since the pandemic. Odesk did not monitor whether the free payroll professionals rates fell, but Ozimek says Odesk edges good concert business model for the workers, because it gives them the freedom to find employers in the world, not only in their city or country. “This is where the United States has the advantage,” he says. “The US leads the world in quality services and our employees working around the world place.” What they fear some workers, is that this race competing with other people for concerts poor who pay the new normal will be, as companies try to spend as little as possible to stay thin. Twitter said Tuesday that for the future, the employee who works from home might forever if desired. But if people are working from home, what is the incentive to keep them as employees? Probably, companies could save money and their families compensated by marketing abroad or setting programmer willing to work for less money and no benefits. Almost half of the world is now connected to the Internet, compared to only 15% in 2007. Marketing of giant companies such as WPP and Omnicom has already spoken of significant staff reductions going forward and could restructuring are turning to freelance on -line when business restarts. A survey found that already in 2017 the average hourly wage of some platforms, Clickworkers and Amazon Mechanical Turk is from $2 to $06.05 per hour. There are signs already happening this transition. Companies seeking to rent to grow in line, many concert to work on Fiverr Fiverr and has seen an increase in demand for these workers, the company said on the earnings call in May. Fiverr has hit all-time daily income four times recorded in April, CEO Micha Kaufman said. Nichols, marketing, says he has seen the major advertising agencies that have laid off hundreds of people located concert for the marketing job for oDesk workers. Odesk said calls to her in May concluded that a multinational Cyber ​​Odesk to find designers, used and developers, and a sports agency hired software developers to market and animation on the site for the projects. Apart from the moral obligation to treat workers well and pay them a living wage, there is nothing to prevent companies that full-time staff to throw overboard and reduce shift workers paid gig. They would only follow what happened in other areas for decades. As overseas for cheap labor and commercial units Applications wages concert production transfers to taxis and delivery driver has the pandemic, the Gig-flows, verification of collar jobs accelerated. The concert economy could be a crowded room before COVID-19, but the booming economy masked its struggles workers, because many may find them other work to supplement their income. Now the extra work has dried up, and their desperation is clearer than ever. If the Gig work is the only cake that millions of people are available, it shares means that some even do not get crumbs.
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