‘Worrying trends’: Gig economy threatens to cost consumers ‘quality’ services, top economist says

Uber-style contract work is a bigger threat to future jobs in the $80 billion transport industry than automation, a new report has warned.

It says that new technology including driverless cars and big data are less of a threat to transport jobs in the medium term than technology jobs platforms that provide individual jobs on a contract basis.

The Future of Transportation Work: Technology, Work Organisation, and the Quality of Jobs by economists Jim Stanford and Matt Grudnoff, from the left-wing think tank The Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute says the transport industry is valuable to the […]

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