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Are you a mom who drives for Uber or Lyft? Take our survey

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Business Insider wants to hear from moms who work for Uber and Lyft.

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  • Being a mom can be challenging and expensive.
  • Some have turned to apps like Uber and Lyft to make extra money — or as their main source of income.
  • Fill out our survey if you're a mom who does gig work.

Uber and Lyft often talk about the flexibility of working as a driver on their apps.

That aspect of the gig has attracted moms, among other people who often want to earn money outside a 9-to-5 schedule. The job can be appealing to mothers who need to juggle school drop-offs, childcare, and other obligations of parenting.

Others, including single moms, say they feel stuck in ride-hailing work and end up having to drive for Uber or Lyft at set times anyway, depending on when the most passengers need rides.

With costs like childcare and college rising, Uber and Lyft offer some moms a way to make extra money — if they can earn enough on the apps and keep costs like gas and car maintenance under control.

Business Insider wants to speak with moms who drive for Uber, Lyft, or other ride-hailing apps. We want to hear about how you combine the gig with taking care of your kids, including both what's working and what isn't. Please fill out the survey below.

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Uber doubles down on ChatGPT for workers after last month's layoffs

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Uber is giving all of its corporate employees access to OpenAI's enterprise tool

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  • Uber is giving its corporate employees access to OpenAI's enterprise work tool.
  • ChatGPT Work can "prepare meeting briefs," among other tasks, OpenAI said.
  • Uber is rolling out the tool after laying off thousands of workers last month.

Uber is giving all of its corporate employees access to OpenAI's enterprise tool weeks after laying off thousands.

About 30,000 employees at the ride-hailing service's offices will have access to ChatGPT Work, the two companies said on Thursday.

The tool will connect with other programs that Uber employees use, such as Slack and Gmail, to "research information, prepare meeting briefs, create presentations, analyze data and complete workflows across applications," a statement said.

"As AI transforms how we work, we want to give everyone the tools to innovate, solve problems and help shape Uber's future," Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga said. Uber initially tested the tool among a group of 1,000 employees.

The rollout comes the month after Uber laid off about 10% of its corporate workforce, or about 3,300 people. The company made the job cuts to reduce management layers and reduce the number of small teams, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said at the time. It didn't cite AI in its announcement.

Some laid-off employees told Business Insider that AI was doing significant parts of their jobs, from answering their questions in Slack to crafting replies to messages from riders and drivers.

Uber cited AI as a reason for an earlier round of layoffs in July, which targeted Uber's customer service employees.

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A bancada parlamentar mede-se pelo número de filhos?

Um deputado decidiu que a melhor forma de vencer debates é contar os filhos. Rui Borges elogia-se a si mesmo e há quem ache que a receita para as greves esbarra na falta de dinheiro para o Uber.

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