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Google hires team behind cleaning startup to help find you a plumber
This morning, Homejoy, an on-demand cleaning service startup in San Francisco, announced that it would be shutting down on July 31st. CEO Adora Cheung told Re/Code that the decision came about in large part due to four ongoing lawsuits brought against the company by workers who wanted to be reclassified as employees. This, in combination with the recent uptick in scrutiny over the on-demand "gig economy," has made it a lot harder to raise enough funding to keep business afloat, according to Cheung. But before Homejoy can even start licking its wounds, Re/Code reports that Google has already swooped in to hire some of Homejoy's engineers for its own upcoming home-services program.
