{"id":82400,"date":"2018-03-10T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/boring-chore-airtasker-or-taskrabbit-could-help-at-a-price\/"},"modified":"2018-03-10T15:03:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T08:03:24","slug":"boring-chore-airtasker-or-taskrabbit-could-help-at-a-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/boring-chore-airtasker-or-taskrabbit-could-help-at-a-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Boring chore? Airtasker or TaskRabbit could help \u2013 at a price"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nTwo services that allow users to outsource everyday tasks are launching in the UK, but are they destroying workers\u2019 rights?It\u2019s like Uber, but for the household chores you can\u2019t face doing yourself: from assembling flat-pack Ikea furniture, to cleaning your home, to sorting out problems with your computer. You go online, list the job you want doing, then others on the site bid to do the work.It has already taken off in Australia, where Airtasker claims to be sorting out 1.4m household jobs a year, earning \u201ctaskers\u201d AU$240m (\u00a3135m). This month Airtasker is spending about \u00a320m launching in the UK, handing out \u00a335 coupons to help pay for the first task. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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