rethinking work in the collaborative economy
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Rethinking Work in the Collaborative Economy - SMEs Assembly 2016 -
M a r c o To r r e g r o s s a Secretary General, European Forum of Independent Professionals
Managing Director, European Sharing Economy Coalition
Bratislava, 25 November 2016
Type Mode Place Status Client Full Time / Part Time
Manual High-skill Online Offline Home Empl. site Employee Self-empl. Individual Company Main job Second job
Upwork * * * * * *
Click-worker * * * * * *
Taskrabbit * * * * * *
Wonolo * * * * * *
Mechanical Turk * * * * * *
Mila * * * * * *
Eden McCallum * * * * * *
Adapted from Ursula Huws, Platform Labour or Crowdsourcing 2015
Diversity of Work Arrangements
Type
Contract
Length
Place
Protection
Employee
Open-ended
Decades
In-house
Linked to premises
Subcontractor
Temporary
Years
Out-house
Linked to status
Freelancer
Self-employed
Months/Days
Home/Cowor-king space
Linked to individual
On demand
Services
Hours/ Minutes
Platforms
To be invented
Adapted from Thomas Malone, The spectrum of jobs
Jobs for Life Become Jobs for a Day
Eurostat, 2015
Combined forces • Globalisation • Faster lifestyles • Technological revolution • Demographic changes • Increased mobility • Development of the service sector • New production patterns • Online platforms • Eroding brand and employer loyalties • Need for specialised ad hoc skills • Cost effective online advertising • Access to better infrastructures
Work is nowadays … 1. Much more accessible 2. In much smaller pieces 3. From a greater number of providers 4. Unbundled from a job
Nick Grossman, The Unbundling of the Job
Structural shifts shaping a new world of work
Innovation Zones With an Uber for Jobs
Wingham Rowan, Central Database of Available Hours (CEDAH)
Marco Torregrossa about.me/marcotorregrossa
Secretary General European Forum of Independent Professionals
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