{"id":12346,"date":"2021-11-04T07:59:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T11:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=12346"},"modified":"2021-11-04T07:59:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T11:59:51","slug":"a-tiny-tweak-to-zomatos-algorithm-led-to-lost-delivery-riders-stolen-bikes-and-missed-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/a-tiny-tweak-to-zomatos-algorithm-led-to-lost-delivery-riders-stolen-bikes-and-missed-wages\/12346\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tiny Tweak to Zomato\u2019s Algorithm Led to Lost Delivery Riders, Stolen Bikes and Missed Wages"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in Rest of World, Oct 7, 2021 The Indian food delivery giant changed riders\u2019 beats without warning, crashing their earnings and exposing some to crime. On September 30, around 60 delivery riders wearing the red uniform of Zomato gathered on the sidewalk in Jeevan Bima Nagar, one of central Bengaluru\u2019s busiest streets. As traffic whizzed by, riders formed a human chain and chanted: \u201cZomato haye haye!\u201d \u2014 roughly: \u201cDown with Zomato!\u201d On the night of September 26, without warning, the delivery platform had tweaked its algorithm to extend the riders\u2019 delivery zones. Riders are usually assigned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/a-tiny-tweak-to-zomatos-algorithm-led-to-lost-delivery-riders-stolen-bikes-and-missed-wages\/12346\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in Rest of World, Oct 7, 2021 The Indian food delivery giant changed riders\u2019 beats without warning, crashing their earnings and exposing some to crime. On September 30, around 60 delivery riders wearing the red uniform of Zomato gathered on the sidewalk in Jeevan Bima Nagar, one of central Bengaluru\u2019s busiest streets. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[1097,59,243,1074],"class_list":["post-12346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-algorithms","tag-analytics","tag-machine-learning","tag-machine-learning-analytics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12347,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12346\/revisions\/12347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}