How far-reaching is this project? You mentioned mystery shoppers and other gig workers. I know who/what a mystery shopper is. Who are the other gig workers? Does their work have anything in common with mystery shopping?
I am intrigued by the movement from general (business administration) to specific (how mystery shop and other [as yet unidentified] gig workers feel about how they find work). As independent contractors, we are independent of each other. We are unique as people and as workers. Overall, we do not have the same interests, abilities, and available time. We like, love, dislike, and hate different things based upon our personal biases and given situations. Some who have good working relationships with mystery shop companies and/or their schedulers have a relatively easy time with finding work and negotiating their payments. Others may develop these skills over time. Would anything in your app enable shoppers to skip this developmental milestone in their careers? There are people who never really get the most from negotiating. They might have trouble in gig work.
It would be interesting to know how your proposed app will approach the collection and dissemination of information.
According to our independent contractor agreements, we are forbidden to link the names of mystery shop providers with their clients. Any expression of any difficulty based upon this hard and fast rule is just an expression of a feeling about something that is unchangeable. If you want to use your app as a means of linking names of mystery shop providers with their current clients, you will need standing. As an independent contractor, you cannot do it. Even if you never sign one of their independent contractor agreements, you are a person who is developing a product that might compete with or help them to eliminate their own apps or entries on aggregated gig boards. For this, you might need a specific and binding agreement with each company and obtain this via some aspect of their business administration such as legal, contracts, or operations.
Have you studied the existing aggregated gig boards and the company-owned apps? Have you worked out with mystery shopping providers how their information will appear on your app as compared to on their apps or on aggregated gig boards? We know what to expect there. For example, changes that we see when clients change are more, fewer, or different gigs. The changes that most of us love to see there happen over time. For example, some will add bonuses or increase fees as time passes. This is probably the only common feature among mystery shoppers here.
Anyway, good luck to you as you work out this app. To me, it sounds like a monumental undertaking. For you, it might be a fun way to learn and earn.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao-Tzu
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 06/14/2021 03:19AM by Shop-et-al.