In the age of WeWork and micro-apartments,are we heading toward a 21st-century version of a workhouse where employers can call on us night and day?I’ve never been a fan of the “sharing economy”. Not that there’s anything intrinsically erroneous with Uber, Airbnb and their peers, or it’s just that there doesn’t really seem to be much “sharing” going on. It’s more like adding a technological intermediary to a rental market.
Now having shaken up the taxi and hotel market,the sharing economy has its eyes on a new market: housing for the digital workforce. This time it may have gone too far.
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Source: theguardian.com