London, Europe Brief News – Do most food delivery industries usually ask their worker about how many deliveries they can make in an hour?
And these kinds of challenges have become a part of the delivery job as most companies offer incentives for completing the tasks on offer.
Last year, a bike courier delivering for Uber eats to hit the 78- year old man and end up killing him.
Later, it was found out that the rider was in the middle of completing his quest to earn some extra cash.
Against the clock
According to 2021 reports on uber eats in japan, Uber has set some bonus quest for its couriers.
Couriers working for Delivery Company can earn an incentive of 3,500 yen for making 30 deliveries in four days.
If you miss hitting the target even by a margin of one, it will mean no bonus.
Lawyer Hironori Niwa said “ If you get paid extra cash based on the number of deliveries you make in a limited time, the risk of accidents increases as the delivery person rushes to make as many deliveries as possible”
He further added that this shows that the Uber eats system is involved in causing daily accidents and create awareness that their system priorities extra money over human lives.
Are quests optional?
In 2020, during the survey in Japan, it was found that most accidents occurred while the courier logged in to the app of the delivery company.
Out of 32 accidents reported from January to March showed that 74% occurred while the courier made a delivery to the customer.
The researcher made a slight change in the methodology to dig deep in this matter to get facts.
They found out that not all of the accidents occurred while completing the quest as only 73% were carrying out a quest when their accident happened.
Uber Eats has officially mentioned earlier that taking part in the quest is the choice of the couriers.
Van Doorn said “ The riders are technically free to select when to log in and log out on a quest, the bill they need to pay and the food they and their families need to be able to eat and stay alive all present urgent necessities that will inform such a free as a choice”
