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by teruakohatu 2208 days ago
On the other hand a friend of mine loves driving for Uber Eats, his friends who drive also love the company, and he thinks he has been especially well treated by the company during COVID. As soon as deliveries were allowed to resume in New Zealand Uber gave drivers a significant temporary increase in earnings to help them make up for lost earnings during our lockdown when food delivery was banned.

As far as I know customers were not charged more so I guess VCs were funding New Zealand drivers.

The detractors might argue friend is being taken advantage of and just doesn't realise it. He thinks otherwise.
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kiwidrew 2208 days ago
You're not wrong about VCs funding the New Zealand drivers; the fact that there's an "excess driver incentives" line item in the Uber 10-K is proof enough!

My flatmate is an Uber Eats driver and didn't receive anything extra from Uber during or after the lockdown. Do you have any further info about the "significant temporary increase in earnings" that Uber provided?

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