Sentence examples for on demand work from inspiring English sources
Once again, GM's engineers, spurred on by Dennis Mooney, the company's executive director for vehicle integration, hope to make displacement on demand work by using a microprocessor to take the pulse of the engine thousands of times a second, and then make adjustments so swiftly and subtly that the driver has no idea how many cylinders are firing at any particular moment.
"Flash teams can be combined to create new types of organizations with completely fluid boundaries – organizations that are composed of many smaller flash teams, each of which are spun up on demand, work in parallel, and disperse when complete," they wrote.
Once a week I attend the On Demand working group meeting at 9am.
Other proponents of on-demand work point to studies, such as one recently commissioned by Uber, showing Uber's on-demand workers to be "happy".
Unlike any other temporary staffing agency our web-based system creates an individualized marketplace for temporary laborers and hiring managers to meet for on-demand work engagements.
Lawsuits against on-demand work companies like Uber and Handy are widely covered in the press while investors continue to pour billions of dollars into similar startups.
It also farms out work to what Germans call an on-demand work bench, a company that supplies the workers for fairly simple tasks while the manufacturer supplies the equipment and tools.
In effect, on-demand work is a reversion to the piece work of the 19th century – when workers had no power and no legal rights, took all the risks, and worked all hours for almost nothing.
But it is also creating a world of disempowered workers who have to labour in this on-demand world – the gig economy in which a working week is no more than a series of "gigs" contracted out by the online dispensers of on-demand work.
First, we can make linear and non-linear, TV channels and video-on-demand, work together.
Interestingly, 55% said they own a business, on top of their on-demand work.
