Contract workers have sued Uber, Lyft, Homejoy, Postmates and Instacart to be recognized as employees. You are unlikely to find them spending afternoons fraternizing at headquarters.
If youre on Facebook, then at some point over the past two weeks you got a little note from the company saying, Its been a great year! Thanks for being a part of it.
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