NYT X WORD AUG 26 2017 DRIVERS
Why just give drivers money and let them decide what to do with it, rather than requiring companies to provide specific benefits to everyone? Once again, it comes down to what drivers want. Anyone who’s been fired after having to miss a shift, or who’s been forced to choose between school and work, will tell you that this type of freedom has real value and simply does not exist with most traditional jobs. Unlike traditional jobs, drivers have total freedom to choose when and how they drive, so they can fit their work around their life, not the other way around. This is because they understand the trade-offs between traditional employment and app work.
A recent survey commissioned by Uber and other companies found that two out of three app drivers would stop driving if their flexibility was compromised.
More important than what I think is what drivers think: In public surveys over the last decade, the vast majority of drivers have said they don’t want to be employees because of how much they value flexibility. Uber would not be as widely available to riders, and drivers would lose the flexibility they have today if they became employees. Rides would be more expensive, which would significantly reduce the number of rides people could take and, in turn, the number of drivers needed to provide those trips. It may seem like a reasonable assumption, but it’s one that I think ignores a stark reality: Uber would only have full-time jobs for a small fraction of our current drivers and only be able to operate in many fewer cities than today. Why not just treat drivers as employees? Some of our critics argue that doing so would make drivers’ problems vanish overnight.
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