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Now, however, Ostin’s earnings have dropped to around a third of when she first joined, and she struggles to hit the app’s bonus target of 20 jobs a day. Some days, all she gets are two gigs. She is not sure what happened, but suspects people are ordering less often, or there has been a change in LadyGrab’s algorithm. To make ends meet, she’s started taking extra gigs through ride-hailing app Gojek — which has less flexible policies for driver safety and opens her up to harassment yet again.It's most likely due to poor economic conditions in 2023 in SE Asia. The economy has been hit hard there. There are likely many more laid-off factory workers who took up ride hailing which means the competition is stiffer.