The sharing economy isn’t sharing its wealth with you
TaskRabbit is shifting its business model from a peer-to-peer errand service to a corporate temp agency. The author argues that this transition undermines the original promise of the 'sharing economy' for individual workers.
TaskRabbit announced a new service in late May branded TaskRabbit for Business through which it will broker temporary labor for businesses. Having built a bullpen of what the company claims are over 10,000 vetted individuals available for “temporary jobs that take multiple days, weeks, or even months to complete,” according to the company’s website, TaskRabbit has pivoted from being a matching service that pairs someone with a few spare hours to a person who has an errand, into a full-blown temp agency.
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