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Amazon should improve protections for contracted delivery workers
Amazon should improve protections for contracted delivery workers
Calacanis argues that Amazon should proactively bring more delivery workers into arrangements offering benefits and equity rather than using fragmented DSP companies primarily to limit corporate exposure.
- Speaker
- Jason Calacanis
- Source timestamp
- 81:16
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