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Reference:
2025/3149
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Question by:
Caroline Russell
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Meeting date:
11 September 2025
The June 2025 report, Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber’s Algorithmic Pay and Pricing, from the University of Oxford Department of Computer Science in conjunction with Worker Info Exchange, found that Uber’s use of dynamic pricing has led to higher fares for passengers and lower earnings for drivers, while increasing Uber’s share of revenue. The study discovered that drivers’ hourly income fell from over £22 to just over £19 before operating costs, and drivers are spending more unpaid time waiting for rides than before. Yet, Uber’s commission rose from around 25 per...