2026-04-22 15:31 UTC
This phenomenon is detailed in eye-watering detail in "Uber For Nursing," a must-read new report by Katie J Wells, Maya Pinto, and Funda Ustek Spilda for the AI Now Institute:
https://ainowinstitute.org/publications/uber-for-nursing
If "Uber for nursing" rings a bell, you might be thinking of "Uber for Nursing: How an AI-Powered Gig Model Is Threatening Health Care," an earlier report that Wells and Spilda wrote for the Roosevelt Institute in late 2024:
https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/uber-for-nursing/
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-04-22 15:31
The Roosevelt Institute report contained many eye-popping findings, most notably that at least some of the leading national nursing gig-work platforms were using data-brokers to find out how much debt nurses were carrying, and offered lower wages to the nurses with the most debt, on the grounds that the most economically desperate nurses will accept the lowest pay: https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/18/loose-flapping-ends/#luigi-has-a-point 13/