cleaners

If users could hire specific cleaners based on their ratings, and cleaners were free to set their own rates, that strikes me as more 1099 appropriate.

The only companies making real money in this market are large established agencies with cleaners on the payroll.

The only problem is that the buttons were ruined by the dry cleaners on a couple of the shirts.

Just because you might not like cleaning, it's a stretch to imagine that casual cleaners don't like their job.

Realistically, robot house-cleaners that can compete with a human both in terms of ability and cost are decades away.

Essentially, if you buy and pray, you generally will get taken to the cleaners by the people with experience.

Homejoy had to find a way to lock their cleaners into ongoing agreements to prevent them from bypassing them.

You have much less occasions to chitchat with firemen, street cleaners, or farmers than taxi drivers.

You could really feel this with the lack of passion from the cleaners and the severe lack of quality cleaning.

The cleaners are not being forced to work for Handy at a subpar value.

Both your cleaners and your customers are hard to compare to their US equivalents.

Just look at dry cleaners - they are everywhere, and usually family owned small businesses that do well enough to put kids through college.

Er, that's not "taking advantage." "Taking advantage" would mean that the ex-Homejoy cleaners are being exploited to accepting the sign-up bonus.

That's what I think is so weird about most of the housecleaning "agencies" - most of them 1099 their cleaners...

I mean the law may only be a civil violation but posts like this allow copyright trolls to "take you to the cleaners" if they can be connected to your name.

Cleaners are unable to provide any additional information before jobs are assigned.