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film profile], which had its North American premiere at Hot Docs, is among the cream of the crop.
It deals with the gig economy: Uber, Deliveroo, Bolt, Wolt, Lyft and an ever-growing bunch of apps that pair services with customers use so-called free contractors . While the idea of working without an office and choosing your own hours sounded attractive some ten years ago, when these started popping up, their business model has reduced the contractors to slaves who always have to be attentive and nice to customers while doing physically and mentally exhausting work for very little money.
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Documentarian Shannon Walsh examines the human cost of the gig economy.
Consider the mighty smartphone. For the app-happy consumer, it s a convenience machine, a wand for conjuring food, a ride, maybe a carpenter to handle a home-improvement chore. On the other side of the equation, where
The Gig Is Up shines an urgently needed light, that device is a heartless and ever-present boss, an algorithm monitoring speed of performance and customer ratings, and given to slashing wages or even deactivating workers chilling tech-speak for firing without warning or discussion. Like you re nothing, one delivery rider says.
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A Very Human Tech Doc, Shannon Walsh s gut punch of a film spends eye-opening time with the workers who keep digital-age capitalism churning the taken-for-granted ride-share drivers and delivery riders and the unseen thousands who fine-tune the AI of internet sites and search engines. The filmmaker travels to California, Florida, France, China and N
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