Tadan, the Pisa-based startup that has invented an ethical algorithm to not exploit its riders

“The piecework model, in which the rider does not earn without deliveries, is wrong. The business risk cannot be passed on to the worker”. Davide Anzalone is one of the founders of Tadan, a food delivery platform born in Pisa during the 2020 lockdown which has decided to publish, on the GitHub service and with an open source license, the algorithm with which the riders’ shifts are distributed. No type of ranking or evaluation based on the history of deliveries, as foreseen by a recent sentence of the court of Bologna. Tadan’s algorithm, designed following an agreement with Nidil CGIL, does not provide for any type of ranking for riders. Furthermore, the platform started by young people in their thirties, has signed co.co.co contracts of varying duration for its 80 riders scattered between Pisa, Livorno, Florence and Lucca which provide bonuses for holidays, kilometers traveled and bad weather: ” the right compromise between flexibility and protection but – says Anzalone – if on the one hand they are a cost, on the other with a good organization of shifts we are able to reduce costs and make our model sustainable “.