If you, as a platform worker, want to contribute your personal data, you may do so by filling in our online survey! You may also want to share this link with your colleagues.
We hope to be able to show in a couple of months which platforms - and which countries - have the shortest and longest working hours, which contracts are relatively better as compared to other contracts, and what the wage differences are between the platforms selected. The more information we collect, the better we will be able to compare and share smart solutions with platform workers, platform organisations, trade unions and other interested parties. A useful implementation our results could lead to are, for instance, platform clauses in Collective Agreements. Of course, how this will work out depends on the quantity and quality of the data we will be able to collect. The overall goal is improved and fair platform work.
It definitely is. Thus far, there is no other comparable systematic research focusing on the working conditions of platform workers on this scale. And since WageIndicator Foundation, the driving force behind it, is active in 140 countries, a massive roll out is quite conceivable. Moreover, we can easily compare the earnings of platform workers with those of employees in ‘normal’ businesses.
The project Platform Workers: Decent Rights & Pay is supported by the (Dutch) Instituut Gak.
