Realizar um sonho de carreira ou garantir a subsistência: o dilema de Ana Claudia

Abstract

Uber and other ride-hailing apps have established themselves in Brazil and around the world, revolutionizing urban mobility and creating new job opportunities. In Brazil, their arrival has brought with it significant impacts, both positive and negative, such as providing greater accessibility to transportation, innovation, and a new way of generating income. However, the lack of formal employment relationships for drivers poses many challenges, such as the lack of labor and social security benefits, being solely responsible for the costs inherent to the activity, and being exposed to risks in traffic every day. This teaching case addresses, in a fictitious way, but based on very common realities, the challenges faced by single mothers when entering the job market. Such women, often, faced with the need to balance their professional lives with raising children, resort to informal work, as is the case of those who become app drivers, in search of greater flexibility and to support their families. The case study was designed to be used in Human Resources Management (HR) and Human Resources practices (HR) courses, promoting reflections on the challenges of informality and the construction of professional careers by women who are heads of households.