Uber is going through tough climate for its main ride-hailing business. Presently Uber is planning to test a new business ground with its app to connect gig workers with employers. It will add broader flexibility and bar staff, cleaners, and warehouse workers will get easy sign up for shifts and can compare pay rates. The app will be initially available in Chicago only. It has to compete with workpop, shiftgig, and wonolo, the best apps in the United Kingdom market.
The company said, “We believe a new, the technology-first approach can provide faster and easier means for people to get work, while offering greater insight into the many opportunities for work that are out there — improving the experience for workers and businesses alike.”
Qualified and expert workers
In a blog post, Uber has said that with its app, now workers can make the entire process more transparent and it will be faster for both employers and workers. According to their survey, presently millions of workers are using staffing agencies to get the right job. And Uber believes, its app will make the process easy, faster, and more transparent. This app is able to pay required information such as pay time, location, working culture and condition. Along with these, gig workers can easily track total working hours and break timings. Here employers can easily choose vetted and qualified gig workers.
In order to make the app different and efficient, Uber is adding any expert feature which will focus on the main skills, an employer needs, is not revealed yet. But in order to compete Wonolo, workpop, and shiftgig, it needs to add some unique options so that ‘winning a heart’ becomes possible.
Initially Chicago will enjoy this app
In order to make the app successful, Uber has chosen Chicago as the only testing country. Actually, it has already spent a test phase for the past year before presenting the app anywhere else. According to the recent report, casual hiring tendency has increased and it is quite controversial. Staffs, who, get hired on an ad hoc basis, they will appreciate its offered flexibility. But at the same time, it may lead to income insecurity and loss of other needed welfare benefits of proper employee status.
Drivers, who are working for its ride-hailing business, have gone to the court to properly establish the firm’s duty to properly provide the staff benefits such as medical leaves and paid holiday leaves.
According to the recent updates, Uber has signed partnership with the staffing agencies in Chicago so that they can properly employ, pay, and rightly handle worker benefits. In other words, it can be said that Uber is side-stepping this worker benefit issues with its new gig job platform.
Uber said, to “eliminate bottlenecks to finding work” for the gig workers and to “reduce scheduling headaches, weather seasonal variations, and staff up for unexpected demand” for the companies, Uber is here to create new gig job setting in this year.
