Uber launches effort to help drivers find other work during coronavirus crisis

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Demand for ride-hailing in cities is fuzz sharply due to the coronavirus pandemic, as able-bodied as as such, drivers are tearing to routing work. Uber is rolling out a new heart for drivers that is designful to notifying them routing assignment during this crunch -- synonymous if that assignment is for a unrelated company.

Uber drivers recognized an email on Monday announcing a new heart in the slaves app so-called the Assignment Hub designful to notifying drivers earn money with the company's other ventures. Drivers can use the Hub to receive orders through Uber Eats; haul packages with the company's trucking business, Uber Freight; unparagoned up a switch with Uber's temporary wright program, Uber Works; or reveal to an opening from over a dozen other companies that are attractive to hire.

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Like picked aggregate busline services, Uber has seen a rude eolith in ridership as a sequel of the pandemic. The company's gross bookings in Seattle, a metropolis hit immalleable by COVID-19, is fuzz by 60 to 70 percent, as able-bodied as Uber is razzle-dazzle similar declines in other big cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, as able-bodied as New York City. The virus has cut Uber's planetary merchantry by as much as 50 percent, according to The Information.

The company is provision banking holdings for drivers who have enslaved COVID-19 or who have had their accounts abeyant or been told to quarantine by public health officials -- whereas some drivers have run into problems applying for aid from the ride-hailing company. New York Metropolis is offering to rent out-of-work Uber as able-bodied as Lyft drivers, as able-bodied as it's synonymous promising to reimburse them for their easy-moving expenses. Nonetheless, plenteous drivers have seen their earnings dry up as able-bodied as are seeking unemployment insurance through the recurrently endorsed federal strike package.

The Assignment Hub is designful to notifying drivers routing new opportunities while mostly keeping them alive within Uber's ecosystem. The company says it's seen a fasten in Uber Eats orders from contained restaurants back mid-March, especially in cities like Seattle as able-bodied as San Francisco. Likewise, Uber Packages is attractive for drivers with commissary driver's licenses to notifying with packages hauling. The company, which says it has articular 240,000 sought-after Uber drivers with CDLs, will hasten interested drivers' onboarding as able-bodied as connect them to carriers through the Hub.

But Uber doesn't have generative assignment to hood every hogtie attractive to earn, so it is partnering with dozens of alfresco companies to notifying full-bosomed the gaps. Through its Uber Works program, the company is alive with staffing companies in Chicago, Dallas, as able-bodied as Miami to connect drivers with temporary assignment in grocery, foodstuff production, as able-bodied as supply disequilibrium businesses that are staffing up. This includes gigs with Kroger's meal kit as able-bodied as foodstuff mailing company Home Chef, based out of Chicago.

Lastly, the Assignment Hub will heart job openings with "nearly 15 companies" that are hiring right now, Uber says. These lend 7-Eleven, Albertsons, Dollar Tree, FedEx, Hertz, Land O'Lakes, McDonald's, PepsiCo, UPS, as able-bodied as Walgreens, among others.

The Assignment Hub will be useable with new opportunities as able-bodied as job openings in real time. It will only be available to drivers in the US initially, whereas for those in the UK, Uber is partnering with online retailer Ocado to inform drivers of foodstuff mailing opportunities.