Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home from Monday, December 6th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

DoorDash tests a wildly new business model, actually having employees, Apple launches a winter war in Russia,

two stories of US telecom companies doing what US telecom companies usually do, act shady,

and Buzzfeed finally hits the public markets.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. We already talked about how they were considering doing this but they've

officially gone and done it now. Door Dash has apparently hired 60 couriers

as full-time employees starting at $15 an hour to launch fast grocery deliveries in New York

City. Shifting, obviously, from Doordash's longstanding gig worker model, quoting the Financial Times.

60 Curriers working full time for Door Dash's pilot launch in New York City

will be hired with set pay and benefits, a departure from the existing gig worker model that the

company has spent tens of millions of dollars to protect in the face of

legislative pressure. Employees will work for a newly created DoorDash subsidiary named Dashcore and will rotate between

biking orders to customers but also some quote shelf stocking, customer support, and

administrative work."

It's a different type of work than what an independent contractor Dasher does, says

Christopher Payne, D'Or Dash's president.

We do know that there's a subset of Dashers that want more of the certainty in their schedule of full-time employment, and so we're offering this job to them.

I think it will attract new people to Doordash, end quote.

Doordash's U-turn on its gig model was partly motivated by the need for

delivery drivers to be available at the warehouse before an order is placed to shave off

crucial minutes of delivery time. The company said the structure was necessary

due to outdated employment law. Eventually Dashcore employees and the

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