When your boss is an algorithm
Drivers for Uber and Lyft say the apps promote wage discrimination.
Updated April 25, 2023 at 7:57 AM ET
Two brothers who drive for Uber recently conducted an experiment. They opened their Uber apps while sitting in the same room, and tested which brother could earn more money to do the same work.
In a , the brothers recorded themselves looking for rides on the app. They found that Uber showed them nearly identical jobs, but offered to pay one of them a little better. The siblings could only guess why. Had Uber's algorithm somehow calculated their worth differently?
