This article is about how the taxi hire firm Uber is planning a expansion in Europe and are in turn promising to create 50,000 jobs in 2015.
- create 50,000 new jobs in 2015.
- Uber’s chief executive, Travis Kalanick, told a conference in Munich: “We want to make 2015 the year where we establish a new partnership with EU cities.”
- Kalanick said Uber’s expansion would take 400,000 cars off the road in cities that welcome the company. He added: “Uber is committed to establishing new partnerships with Europe’s cities to ensure innovation, harness powerful economic benefits and promote core city functions.”
- Uber has been hit with court injunctions in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain for violating taxi licensing rules.
- Kalanick also told mayors in Europe that if they relax regulations that prevent the firm operating, over the next four years Uber would create 10,000 jobs in each of their cities.
- Those new jobs would not be Uber employees, by and large. As a leading proponent of the “sharing economy”, the company’s drivers are legally independent contractors in the cities, such as London, where it operates as a minicab firm.
This article is interesting as it shows how the NDM app has rapidly expanded and become a hit ever since its creation.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/19/uber-new-european-jobs-taxi-app
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