Recently, many topics of online ride-hailing drivers and takeaway brothers have triggered heated discussions on the Internet. Their living conditions, some well-known platform surveys and statistics, are conveying to us a very cruel reality - the survival of middle-aged people is difficult. Especially in May this year, Tsinghua University released a travel report, there are several data, let us see the real feeling, online car drivers are too difficult, middle-aged men are not easy to survive.
Tsinghua University reports that ride-hailing drivers work an average of 11 hours a day
In May this year, Tsinghua University released the "2021 China First-tier City Travel Platform Survey Report". Although this is only a sample survey data (according to field interviews in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, nearly 300 cases of driver-side and passenger-related data were collected), it does not explain the full survival of all online ride-hailing vehicles, but it is enough to explain the hardships of the online ride-hailing industry.
First, 81% of ride-hailing drivers work at least 8 hours a day. Working at 5 o'clock every day, 49.21% of drivers work 8-12 hours a day, 27.38% of drivers work 12-16 hours, and even 4.37% of drivers even work 16-20 hours a day. That is to say, 80.96% of the drivers in the survey worked more than 8 hours a day.
Second, nearly three-quarters of survey drivers are working 7 days a week. In the survey, 74.76% of drivers work 7 days a week.
According to the statistics of the survey, the average working hours of e-hailing drivers are 11.05 hours per day, and the average number of days per week is 6.45 days, so the average working hours of these e-hailing drivers are more than 71 hours per week, and the longest may reach 120 hours.
Third, almost all the people who drive online ride-hailing cars are middle-aged men. Ride-hailing drivers over the age of 26 account for more than 90% of the total, with the main age distribution being 26-35 and 36-45 years old. There are also many 46-55 age groups, accounting for a quarter of the proportion. Almost only about 4% of ride-hailing drivers under the age of 25. Combined with the fact that 96.91% of the proportion is male drivers, it is really not easy for middle-aged men.
Fourth, the number of years of employment of e-hailing drivers is relatively short. One-third of e-hailing drivers have less than a year, 63.12% of e-hailing drivers have less than 3 years, and the total of more than 5 years is only 21.99%, less than a quarter.
Perhaps, this is the state of domestic ride-hailing drivers, most of them should be middle-aged people with their families and mouths, there are old and young middle-aged men, so they have to run on the hard road of survival every day.
Combined with myself, the value brother knows how hard these online ride-hailing drivers are, after all, he has worked for two years on the first online ride-hailing platform in China, and has five or six years of observation in this industry, and he deals with these obscure service providers almost every day. The hardships of online ride-hailing drivers and the difficulties of takeaway brothers may not be experienced by many people.
The deputy director of the Human Resources and Social Security Department sighed: The takeaway brother "this money is too difficult to earn"
In April this year, Beijing Television broadcast a video from the deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security to experience the content of the takeaway brother. The director did a day of Meituan takeaway brother, and finally collapsed on the side of the road at nightfall.
I watched this complete video, from the beginning of taking orders to riding an electric car to deliver food, the test of the takeaway brother is not only the speed of food delivery, but also a series of processes such as knowing the way and taking meals. This process often gives the takeaway brother only ten minutes.
However, if the delivery timeout is overdue, the 60% delivery fee will be deducted. No wonder the director finally sighed, "Worked 12 hours a day, sent 5 orders, earned 41 yuan, this money is too difficult to earn", when night fell, the director was busy for a day, and finally collapsed on the side of the road, issuing such an exclamation.
In February this year, a Guangzhou Meituan rider released a video complaining about the low price of the Meituan delivery fee, "send 1,000 yuan of Heytea order, the delivery fee is only 5 yuan."
In this regard, the response of Meituan takeaway is very official, saying that the delivery fee is calculated by the system according to distance, and this situation can apply for a large single subsidy. But for the takeaway brothers who are busy every day, they may also have to work at least 10 hours, where do they have time to apply for this large subsidy?
No wonder some netizens said, "With a delivery fee of 5 yuan, the heart of more than 1,000 yuan of orders", "This thousand yuan order Meituan must deduct at least 200 merchants, give the rider five yuan delivery fee is a bit disgusting, but also apply for a large order reward? Those who don't apply should be deserved", "The platform owes the little brother an attitude".
Whether it is a takeaway brother or an online ride-hailing driver, they all have to face the multiple hardships of life. It's not that life isn't good, it's just that many people have to carry the weight forward.