Oxford Internet Institute

29 August 2017

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

Online labour platforms allow companies to source work from freelancers over the Internet on an on-demand basis. We know that this phenomenon grew about 26 percent globally over the ... Read More How the world’s largest companies use online freelancing platforms: New report

14 July 2017

Authors: Otto Kassi

Our new Online Labour Index worker map provides a real-time measurement of the online gig economy by revealing where different types of jobs are taking place. To our knowledge, ... Read More Comparing the OLI Worker Map to other studies on online work supply

11 July 2017

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

Online Labour Index top occupation by country, 1-6 July 2017 The Internet has created a global market for digitally delivered freelance work, which is currently growing rapidly. Our new ... Read More Where are online workers located? The international division of digital gig work

11 July 2017

Authors: Otto Kassi

As more and more tasks and projects are transacted via online platforms and apps, national governments and statistical agencies face increasing challenges in tracking the growth of this phenomenon. ... Read More Measuring the supply of digital labour: How the OLI worker supplement is constructed

10 July 2017

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

Online Labour Index, July 2016 – June 2017 (28-day moving average) Online freelancing and crowdwork are some of the terms used for temporary and project-based work conducted remotely over ... Read More The online gig economy grew 26% over the past year

4 July 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

New forms of digital work have emerged which, in theory, can be done from anywhere. Does this mean that geography no longer matters to digital work? Not exactly. My ... Read More ‘Digital Labour’ – our new publication

4 July 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

New forms of digital work have emerged which, in theory, can be done from anywhere. Does this mean that geography no longer matters to digital work? Not exactly. My ... Read More ‘Digital Labour’ – our new publication

29 June 2017

Authors: Otto Kassi

We are happy to announce that the Online Labour Index won the first prize in an annual OxTALENT competition organised by the University of Oxford IT services in the ... Read More Online Labour Index wins in a University data visualisation competition

13 April 2017

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

shutterstock.com Platforms like eBay, Uber, Airbnb, and Freelancer are thriving, growing the digital economy and disrupting existing business. The question is how to ensure that the transformations they entail ... Read More Could universal basic income counter the gig economy’s problems?

21 March 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

This report is based on a three-year investigation conducted by researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford and the Gordon Institute of Business Science ... Read More New report: ‘The Risks and Rewards of Online Gig Work At the Global Margins’

21 March 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

This report is based on a three-year investigation conducted by researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford and the Gordon Institute of Business Science ... Read More New report: ‘The Risks and Rewards of Online Gig Work At the Global Margins’

28 February 2017

Authors: Mohammad Anwar

This is a short post about the research that I lead into digital work and the digital economy in Sub-Saharan Africa. The work that I do (in tandem with my ... Read More Digital gig work and outsourcing in Africa- Update on Geonet

27 February 2017

Authors: Mohammad Anwar

This is a short post about the research that I lead into digital work and the digital economy in Sub-Saharan Africa. The work that I do (in tandem with my ... Read More Digital gig work and outsourcing in Africa- Update on Geonet

20 December 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

What do Google, Uber, and Facebook have in common? You might think that the answer is that they are all technology companies. But actually it is that they all ... Read More Let’s make platform capitalism more accountable

21 November 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

The European Trade Union Institute has just put together a 40-page report that comes out of their conference on ‘Shaping the new world of work. The impacts of digitalisation ... Read More Shaping the new world of work

21 November 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

The European Trade Union Institute has just put together a 40-page report that comes out of their conference on ‘Shaping the new world of work. The impacts of digitalisation ... Read More Shaping the new world of work

1 November 2016

Authors: Alex Wood

Dr Alex J. Wood discussed the implications of the recent UK Uber Employment Tribunal ruling on BBC News. The court decided that Uber must classify its drivers as workers. ... Read More Uber: risk without autonomy or control

27 October 2016

Authors: Otto Kassi

Our colleagues over at the Geonet project have drawn some wonderful maps based on our Online Labour Index country data. The open vacancies are plotted in the figure below. As ... Read More Mapping the demand for online labour

21 October 2016

Authors: Sanna Ojanpera

Digitalization and the increasing connectivity across the globe have capacitated the emergence of an online labour market. A number of platforms now facilitate transactions between employers and employees, often based in ... Read More Mapping the Availability of Online Labour

20 October 2016

Authors: Sanna Ojanpera

Digitalization and the increasing connectivity across the globe have capacitated the emergence of an online labour market. A number of platforms now facilitate transactions between employers and employees, often based in ... Read More Mapping the Availability of Online Labour