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How are they called "tech companies"? Are they not just delivery companies?
Not criticizing, just asking
Calling yourself a tech company gets you more investors
Using technology to increase productivity counts as a tech company. Having an app counts as a tech company. Shits ridiculous now...lol
Good point, shit… tech…
If you shit and do financial work- tech industry
If you shit and write an email as a lawyer? You’re a tech worker. Good job
It has all become clear
It's because they claim that they don't actually do any deliveries, they just maintain the tech platform that connects independent contractors to delivery jobs. They do this for legal reasons, because if you think about it all jobs technically just connect people to tasks that they complete.
Presumably because they don't have a single delivery employee. They just provide "tech" that lets drivers and customers find each others.
Of course if those companies were to become responsible for providing a living wage to their "gig workers", then it becomes harder to still call them mere "tech" companies (and some might argue that an article using that label to describe them is in fact implicitly picking a side in that lawsuit.)
I mean… the law itself is written in such a way that is intentionally ambiguous, and refers to delivery drivers as “workers” (rather than “employees” or “independent contractors”) and refers to the platforms as “third parties”.
The reality is Uber, grubhub, doordash, etc. are owners of a platform that connects customers to contract delivery services. They don't directly employ delivery persons. Their product is this platform. This is why they are considered tech companies.
Everything is a tech company nowadays it seems
I just found out yesterday that I'm a Tech Company, so you're not wrong! But in all seriousness, I love the fact capitalism is supposed to be sink or swim, but apparently a lot of our service industry is only a float due to low wages, and in some industries, pushing cost off to the customer in the form of tipping.
If you can't afford to pay a decent wage, then you shouldn't be in business.
It's a delivery company that does long short term memory nearest neighbor search gradient descent research on the side
You should criticize. Your point is entirely correct.
They're not. They're S&O companies with tech.