EditorialVyacheslav Potapenko, who works as a food courier, checks his phone for delivery orders in Yerevan, Armenia on Dec. 11, 2022. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)
EditorialVyacheslav Potapenko, who works as a food courier, checks his phone for delivery orders in Yerevan, Armenia on Dec. 11, 2022. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)
EditorialVyacheslav Potapenko, who works as a food courier, checks his phone for delivery orders in Yerevan, Armenia on Dec. 11, 2022. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)
EditorialDeliveristas Unidos member Joshua Wood, who worked for food delivery apps throughout much of the pandemic but switched to courier service when he saw his pay noticeably drop, in Manhattan, Nov. 21, 2022. (José A. Alvarado Jr./The New York Times)
EditorialSanju Jaiswal holds a photo sent by her husband, Amrish, days before he was killed in traffic while working as a motorbike courier in Qatar, at her home in Bhokteni, Nepal in October 2022. (Purnima Shrestha/The New York Times)