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Electric vehicle giant Tesla has announced it is to lay off 10% of its staff worldwide. Tesla currently employs some 140,400 staff which means around 14,000 jobs will go. The reason given is to cut out a number of positions and also to get rid of roles that are currently being duplicated. In a company-wide email, CEO Elon Musk said, as reported by Electrek: "Over the years, we have grown rapidly with multiple factories scaling around the globe. With this rapid growth, there has been duplication of roles and job functions in certain areas. "As we prepare the company for our next phase of growth...
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EU member states and lawmakers today (11 March) provisionally agreed on new rules for platform workers, aiming to improve working conditions and regulate the use of algorithms by digital labour platforms. The deal comes after several member states last month derailed a political agreement that was reached earlier between the member states and the European Parliament. The rules were first proposed by the commission in December 2021, to protect workers for apps such as Uber, Deliveroo and Glovo who are often treated as self-employed despite being under rules similar to ordinary employees. Under ...
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Delivery services for locals and tourists in the opulent Norwegian ski resort town of Lillehammer just got a lot more exclusive. The Norwegian start-up Aviant on Tuesday expanded its drone delivery service to 4,000 people living in the Lillehammer suburbs as it launched the longest-range drone deliveries in the world. The suburbians can order deliveries through the company’s Kyte app and can order about 1.5kg worth of goods such as medicine, groceries, and meals from independent restaurants. They can expect an average delivery time of 24 minutes. The drones will operate within a radius of 17km...
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Frisco (United States) (AFP) - The little aircraft appeared out of the blue sky above a Texas home, deposited its payload of a mid-morning snack in the yard and zoomed off, as deliveries by drone start becoming a reality in America. Flying shipments of pizzas and birthday gifts have still not become the norm that tech leaders predicted, but the service is available in parts of the United States and government regulation is catching up. Skeptics question whether drone drop-offs can ever work on a large scale, but backers argue they are safer and better for the planet than hulking, greenhouse-g...
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New York (AFP) - "A colleague needs help to recover his bicycle!" says a message in the WhatsApp group of the Delivery Boys United, a team of food delivery workers in New York who are organizing to defend themselves following attacks and thefts. Vicente Carrasco, a 39-year-old from Mexico, formed the group in March after he was assaulted. They aim to protect themselves and their electric bikes, which cost around $3,000 and, along with their phones, are their livelihoods. Every night after a long day riding around the Big Apple, Carrasco and other "deliveristas," mostly men, meet under the Quee...
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