rethinking work in the collaborative economy

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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