- There is no salary negotiation for each job. Earnings are unknown until after the job is completed. This is worse than both normal 1099 contract work and hourly wage work - but it more closely resembles hourly work than a freelancing situation.
- Drivers do not choose work based on accepting the full parameters of the job (pickup and dropoff location). They have to accept the job without knowing all the conditions like a contractor would.
- The company tells the “contractor” what to do in the sense that refusing too many pickups punishes and de-platforms the driver. In other words, once you are “on the clock” you have to perform all tasks assigned to you or face disciplinary action, a subordinate situation similar to an hourly job. The only difference is that you can clock in or out when you want.