Tag: future of work

30 January 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

  I have a short piece in New Statesman about the rise of what I am calling a planetary labour market. I wrote it because this will be the ...
Read More The rise of the planetary labour market

10 January 2018

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

Gig economy platforms seem to provide extreme temporal flexibility to workers, giving them full control over how to spend each hour and minute of the day. What constraints do ...
Read More Flexibility in the gig economy: How workers manage time on online piecework platforms

26 September 2017

Authors: Gretta Corporaal

Firms have been using temporary staffing agencies to find and hire temporary workers for short-term assignments since the 1940s. Temporary workers were initially used to cover for their in-house ...
Read More 6 dimensions of value: Comparing platform versus agency-based sourcing

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

14 June 2017

Authors: Gretta Corporaal

Organizing for successful platform adoption: Part 2 Large corporations are starting to realize the benefits of leveraging online platforms to access freelancers on an on-demand basis. However, they are ...
Read More How the Fortune 500 experiment with platform adoption

17 May 2017

Authors: Gretta Corporaal

What does innovation literature predict about the organizational challenges of adopting online freelancing platforms – and how to address them?  Digital technologies have fueled a new wave of outsourcing ...
Read More Organizing for successful platform adoption: Part One

25 April 2017

Authors: Gretta Corporaal

What challenges do organizations face when adopting online freelancing platforms as part of their business models? Digital technologies have enabled the rise of online labour platforms that transform contemporary organizations ...
Read More Organizing with on-demand freelancers in the platform economy: Part Two

19 April 2017

Authors: Gretta Corporaal

To understand the future of work we need to explore the diversity of platforms and how they are used in the modern economy. In the platform economy, digital technologies ...
Read More Organizing with on-demand freelancers in the platform economy: Part One

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

27 May 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

Factories can’t run, farms can’t produce, mines can’t be mined, supermarkets can’t be stocked, and call centres can’t accept calls if workers don’t go to work. Even though the ...
Read More Digital work marketplaces impose a new balance of power

23 March 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

The Digital Transformations of Work Conference that Alex Wood and I organised brought together a room full of brilliant and passionate speakers and 80 guests to have a wide-ranging and ...
Read More ‘Digital Transformations of Work’ 🎬 Conference Webcasts 🎬