Listen here or subscribe at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts, including YouTube, where Closed Captioning is available. If you would like to support the journalism of the Toronto Star, you can subscribe at thestar.com/subscribingmatters. Guest: Sara Mojtehedzadeh, work and wealth reporter for the Toronto StarRobots have arrived in Toronto and they’re delivering your food. The company behind Geoffrey is claiming it to be a safe alternative for delivery services that emphasizes buying local just as our reliance on gig workers for delivering our orders has increased. But as Star reporter Sara Mojtehedzadeh found out, sometimes the way Geoffrey is run isn’t local at all and the concept of delivery-by-robot raises some serious questions about implications for gig workers who have already been heavily impacted by this pandemic.

Source: thestar August 11, 2021 18:22 UTC