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So you'd be ok with £8 phr to pay for some more bench sitters?
To rephrase, I think I would probably take a small pay cut for guaranteed earnings (when I choose to work). Students have gone on holiday here and the weather's nice so orders are going to be way down over the next few weeks. I'd rather earn £8/hr every hour, even if I'm just sat in the park, than £10/hr most of the time and £0/hr occasionally.
What I wouldn't want is to spend 6 hours of my Saturday sat around in the city centre for a measly £20.
I think Deliveroo is starting to address this anyway. They are offering a minimum order incentive in the first zone I worked in (where I had 4 orders from 7-10PM on a Saturday). It's not necessary in busy zones but if they want us to work in the crap zones then they need to make sure we're paid enough to want to do it. I've not been back to that zone since.
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So you'd be ok with £8 phr to pay for some more bench sitters?
I am not against it out of greed. I just don't believe it solves a problem. The margins are what they are ( #tukt ) and Deliveroo hasn't yet made a profit. If you de-incentivise fast work at peak times you will make it a worse business, guaranteed.