How the gig economy is making life harder for North American workers

Re:How the gig economy is making life harder for North Ameri... by prawn on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @11:32PM (#17300022)

In Australia, the people who look to be doing deliveries of this sort (by bike, etc) seem to be students. Actually, I can't recall ever (20 years+) having had takeaway delivered by anyone who looks over about 30-35yo.

Waitstaff in restaurants are typically younger here too. In visiting the US, it's seemed that there are a lot more "career" waitstaff whereas in Australia that happens more in small owner-operator establishments, or very premium restaurants.

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Re:How the gig economy is making life harder for North Ameri... by EliRivers on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @05:06AM (#17301454)

As an aside, on the subject of waitstaff in restaurants, when I was in Oz visiting family, I noticed that while in the coastal cities I saw a broad range of faces in a broad range of situations, but once I was a few hundred miles inland, the only non-white faces I saw were serving me food; they certainly weren't students. It very much felt like there were two Australias.

I expect that's true everywhere, really, in various ways.

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