Despite bans on doing so from apps like Uber and DoorDash, some gig workers are renting or selling accounts to others, a new ...

Gig work is taking over the nursing industry and creating new challenges. Gig work apps are taking over the nursing industry and increasing crucial risks that are not present in food delivery or ...

A chunk of young gig workers are selling or renting their user accounts on ride-share and food delivery apps for extra cash, ...

More Americans are turning to gig work even as traditional hiring slows. And as ubiquitous as gig work feels now, it’s likely ...

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and New York’s attorney general have accused Handy, the gig app customers can use to book cleaners, handymen, and more, of making deceptive claims about how much ...

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Workers using the gig economy app YoungOnes have accused the company of holding their earnings to ransom by charging them a fee to receive their wages on time. YoungOnes now charges workers 4.8 ...

Household work was one of the last frontiers to fall to India’s surging online platforms economy. Algorithmically managed, ...

The smog of invisibility that shrouds working lives in India was briefly lifted on 31 December 2025, when nearly 200,000 gig ...

The earnings of a gig worker are shaped less by fixed wages and more by a constantly shifting balance of supply and demand.