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Platform economy database

Database of initiatives and court cases in the EU

Eurofound’s platform economy database provides information on 300 initiatives and court cases that exist or have been implemented in relation to activities in the platform economy. The database was last updated in February 2023 and provides metadata for each entry, such as geographical scope, year, type of initiative, actors involved, sector and companies concerned. Initiatives include legal instruments such as legislative changes or court decisions, as well as voluntary interventions undertaken by different stakeholders to address issues around platform work.

Topic: Platform work Platform economy repository

The database currently contains 300 entries and was last updated in February 2023.

Country

Typology

Sector

Platform

Keyword

Type

Date

21 January 2021

Active

Country

Non-EU

Geographical scope

Cross-border

Type

Type

Advice and exchange
Voluntary

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Description

MTurk Crowd has a daily thread where workers and clients can share information and tasks and provides how-to guides for new or aspiring workers. Workers share, for example, links to lucrative tasks with high approval ratings (that is, a high likelihood to have the finalised task approved for payment by the requester) and high monetary rewards, while clients discuss the correct design and implementation of tasks to the platform.

Additional metadata

Keywords: tasks, platformisation of work
Actors: Individual worker
Sector: Professional, scientific and technical activities
Platforms: Amazon Mechanical Turk

Mturkgrind

Mturkgrind is a forum for Amazon Mechanical Turk workers and requesters. The main areas are threads related to advice for a variety of issues (such as resolving issues verifying the …
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MTurk forum

MTurk forum is an online webpage for workers and requesters on Amazon Mechanical Turk. For workers, the forum has areas for discussions on topics such as personal financial goals, statistics …
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Eurofound publications on the platform economy

Regulating platform work in Europe: A work in progress

The platform economy is one of those moving targets, which, despite receiving increasing media and policy attention, has proven difficult to regulate. Given the heterogeneity of employment relationships, business models, types of platform work and cross-border issues, this is not surprising.
- Date 27 September 2022
The digital age: Implications of automation, digitisation and platforms for work and employment

Technological change is accelerating as the capacity of electronic devices to digitally store, process and communicate information expands. Digitalisation is transforming the EU economy and labour markets: nearly one-third of EU workplaces are categorised as highly digitalised. What are the implications of the digital revolution for employment and work?
- Date 15 December 2021
Initiatives to improve conditions for platform workers: Aims, methods, strengths and weaknesses

The rapid rise of the platform economy has led to a marked transformation of European labour markets, and existing regulatory frameworks and voluntary initiatives have yet to catch up. While platform work offers opportunities for workers and employers and potentially contributes to innovation, economic growth and competitiveness in the EU, it has been criticised from the beginning because of the poor employment and working conditions often experienced by workers.
- Date 2 December 2021
Charting a positive path for platform workers

While 2020 may come to be seen as the year platform work gathered pace and started to go mainstream – thanks in large part to COVID-19 containment measures sparking an increase in food and grocery delivery – 2021 could be the year that regulation of platform work is set in motion.
- Date 24 February 2021