The European Commission Takes a Bold Action to Improve Lives of Platform Workers — What Is the…
The European Commission Takes a Bold Action to Improve Lives of Platform Workers — What Is the Sentiment Around It?by Jovana Karanovic, Founder and Managing Director of Reshaping WorkOn December 9, 2021 the European Commission proposed a set…
What Did 1,000 Platform Workers in the UK Say About Their Experiences of Work?
Ultimately, there are only three ways of doing this. You can increase the difficulty of the learning content, improve teacher instruction, or encourage students to be more engaged.That’s it. Everything else — from how much teachers are…
What Are the Features of Unpaid Labour in the Platform Economy?
Lessons for Workers’ Representation and Collective Bargaining among Delivery Riders, Carers, and Freelancersby Valeria Pulignano, Professor of Sociology of Work and Industrial Relations, KU Leuven**This blog is based on a lecture delivered as part of…
Skills Development 4.0: What can we learn from workers in the online platform economy?
Both policy and academic literature have been relatively silent in their analysis of the skills development and matching processes in the online platform economy. Many relevant questions about the skills demanded in online platform work…
It Is Time to Include Women in the Discourse on Platform Work
, 2016). While the total number of platform workers is relatively low at the moment, platformisation of traditional economic activities is set to expand, especially with the growing demand for certain services such as care…
Towards AI Transparency: Can a Participatory Approach Work?
In particular, this greater demand is coming from regulators, policy makers and the general public as the hardwiring of inequality and discrimination into AI systems has now become mainstream.However, meaningful accountability is not simple at…
Shaping the Platform Economy — Better Data and Broader Research are Needed to Achieve a Desirable…
Shaping the Platform Economy — Better Data and Broader Research are Needed to Achieve a Desirable FutureBy Dragos Adascalitei and Barbara Gerstenberger, EurofoundPlatform work is a continuously changing phenomenon both in its scale and scope. However, despite…
Workers, Work Skills, Trade Unions and the Future of Work
Work is a human endeavour that involves earning some form of wages and engaging in some form of activity. Under the canopy of work, people exchange their skills, competences, experience and time with an employer…
The Power of Allyship: Why We Need Each Other to Make Platform Work Fair
However, the risks and benefits of the gig economy are highly uneven. While consumers and platforms benefit from cheap labour costs and easily accessible services, workers on these platforms often face low wages and dangerous…
Strengthening platform work for all: a tale of two approaches
Millions do so every day. In a little more than a decade, Europe has become home to a thriving and competitive platform ecosystem with over two dozen innovative companies changing our lives and cities one…