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Human cloud firm Honor shifts to employees

January 21, 2016

Honor, a San Francisco-based human cloud firm that provides home care workers, announced in a blog post that it will transition workers to employees from independent contractors.

“By making our Care Pros employees, we can offer them greater security, workers comp, and paid sick leave,” co-founder and CEO Seth Sternberg wrote in the blog post. “We can give them additional job training to better care for clients with Alzheimer’s, dementia, diabetes, cancer and other age-related conditions. We can also offer career advancement opportunities and equity — something rarely done in the service industry — so they can ultimately share in Honor’s success.”

Sternberg had raised $20 million in funding for Honor, TechCrunch reported last April.

Other human cloud firms such as Uber and Lyft had come under fire for their use of independent contractors.

However, Honor isn’t the only human cloud firm to shift to employees. Others such as Shyp and Instacart have also taken this route to varying degrees.