app-based work
Platform-mediated employment
App-based work is labor coordinated through smartphone applications, where a platform connects workers with customers for tasks like rideshare driving, food delivery, or household services.
Workers are typically classified as independent contractors rather than employees, which shifts costs like insurance and vehicle maintenance onto them while limiting access to traditional benefits.
She quit her office job for app-based work but found the flexibility came with income instability.
- gigShort-term paid work
- gig economyWork based on temporary contracts
- freelanceSelf-employed project work
- UberApp-summoned car service
- DoorDashFood delivery service
rideshare · delivery · contractor · background check · platform · smartphone · algorithm · ratings · star rating · surge · hustle · flexibility · precarious · driver · courier · TaskRabbit · Instacart · swipe
- side workside job, side jobs, side hustle, side gigs, side hustles
- gig workside hustle, freelancer, freelancing, independent contractor, rideshare driver
- temp worktemp, temps, temp agency, temping, warehouse temp
app-based workpermanent employment
Ongoing work with no termination date
full-time employment · permanent position · civil service · union job · office job
apps, application, applications, applicant, applied, applying, applies, base, based