When your boss is an algorithm
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In the gig economy, companies such as Uber and Deliveroo manage workers via their phones. But is this liberating or exploitative ? The small London side street reverberates with the growl of motorbikes and the shriek of horns. A young man yells hoarsely into a megaphone : “They’re gonna be disrupted, yeah ! Because your lives are being disrupted, yeah ! This is the money you need to live !” Dozens of men in T-shirts and jeans cheer and pump the horns on their motorbikes, scooters and (...)