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The Guardian - UK
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Guardian community team

UK workers over 50: share your experience of being a food courier

A takeaway food courier, working for Deliveroo, operated by Roofoods Ltd., cycles along Oxford Street in central London, UK, on Tuesday, 29 September 2020.
A takeaway food courier, working for Deliveroo, operated by Roofoods Ltd., cycles along Oxford Street in central London, UK, on Tuesday, 29 September 2020. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

Over-50s looking for work in the UK should consider delivering takeaways and other flexible jobs typically occupied by younger people, the work and pensions secretary, Mel Stride, has said.

Stride made the comments during a visit to the London headquarters of the food delivery firm Deliveroo, which has recorded a 62% increase in riders aged over 50 since 2021.

We’d like to hear from workers aged 50 and over who have taken up such work, and how they have been finding it.

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