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Poaching drivers may be the norm for ride-sharing companies |
August 29, 2014
It seems like poaching drivers is par for the course in the ride-sharing industry.
Like Lyft, Sidecar drivers have also been targeted by Uber’s recruitment efforts, Sidecar’s CEO said Thursday—though he admitted that his own company has tried in-car recruitment in the past too.
Recruiters working for Uber have been ordering rides with Sidecar for some time then trying to get the driver to switch companies, Sidecar CEO Sunil Paul said in an interview.
It’s happened in nearly all of the 10 cities where Sidecar operates, and recruiters sometimes offer drivers $500 to make the switch, he said.
Sidecar knows about the recruitment efforts because it hears about them from its drivers, Paul said. It hasn’t received reports about Lyft using similar techniques.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2600420/poaching-drivers-may-be-the-norm-for-ridesharing-companies.html#tk.rss_all
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