Future of Work Institute

18/03/2021

💡 Yesterday, Uber announced it will guarantee new benefits to their 70,000 UK drivers. This comes just one month after the ruling by the UK Supreme Court that Uber drivers are workers for the platform and not self-employed.

Listed are the 5 key new offerings the company will be providing.

04/03/2021

"Trade unions for still seem to be a fairly new phenomenon. According to recent reporting from the Financial Times, union membership in the United Kingdom is still heavily skewed to middle-income workers in more traditional full-time, permanent jobs. Additionally, they found that workers with non-standard jobs, like gig workers, were 50 percent less likely to be members of unions."

From the mid-1700s until about 1840, the world went through incredible change in the way it worked and earned income with the Industrial Revolution. The transition from hand to machine-based production led to the creation of countless new jobs in economies that were once dependent on agriculture and...

19/02/2021

BREAKING NEWS: UK Supreme Court rejects Uber's appeal and instead rules that Uber drivers are workers 🚗

The United Kingdom Supreme court has upheld the original ruling of the tribunal stating the drivers of the rideshare platform, Uber, are workers, awarding them benefits such as minimum wage and holiday pay. The Supreme Court found Uber to hold more power or control in the worker-platform relationshi...

15/02/2021

The Biden Administration has halted the Department of Labor new independent contractor regulation which originally set out to make it easier for businesses to classify workers as independent contractors. The rule listed 5 factors to determine the economic reality or economic dependence of the workers on the company which entail:

1. The Nature And Degree Of The Individual’s Control Over The Work

2. The Individual’s Opportunity For Profit Or Loss

3. The Amount Of Skill Required For The Work

4. The Degree Of Permanence Of The Working Relationship

5. Whether The Work Is Part Of An Integrated Unit Of Production

10/02/2021

Work-life balance has been an increasingly popular topic over the last five years as indicated by Google trends. With a pandemic forcing most workers to turn their living rooms into offices, it might be a good idea to revisit this topic and see how things have changed.

04/02/2021

💸 Freelancers in the UK are currently estimated to generate £130 billion for the economy.

💬 Read our latest article on Brexit and its potential impact on the gig economy in Britain.

Link to the article: https://www.appjobs.com/institute/the-brexit-deals-potential-impact-on-the-british-gig-economy/

29/01/2021

Reshaping Work 2021 Report
Today is the launch day for the report by Reshaping Work with policy recommendations on the future of work in Europe.

The report is based on a multistakeholder dialogue in which our Director Natalia Cieslak and Iwona Polog, together with gig platforms, researchers and other stakeholders in Europe have participated during the autumn.
Read the 24 Policy Recommendations Within the Fields of
💡 Access to Good Quality Work
🔎 Social Protection Rights and Benefits
🚀 Skills and Career Development

Link to the report: https://www.appjobs.com/institute/reshaping-work-2021-report/

22/01/2021

Data to Empower Gig Workers

💯 Ratings and reputations often play a crucial role in securing work or garnering customers.

✏️ Today platform workers can only establish a reputation on individual platforms and in moving to new platforms have to start from scratch.

🚀 Giving gig workers ownership of their online reputations can address some of the issues associated with securing enough work especially when working across or moving to new platforms.

Read more about Data Protection, Employment Data and Worker Empowerment in our latest article 👉https://www.appjobs.com/institute/data-management-gives-people-power/

20/01/2021

🚦 Beginning of January the court of Bologna ruled against the food delivery platform Deliveroo's algorithm, citing discrimination.

❓ It will be interesting to follow how this will proceed - not only in Italy but also in other European countries. Will more complaints will be made against the platforms algorithms?

Interested in knowing more on how the gig platforms are managed by algorithms? Read our latest paper here 👉 https://www.appjobs.com/institute/algorithms-role-in-the-platform-economy/

15/01/2021

📱 Algorithmic Management within the Gig Economy

Algorithms control everything on gig platforms from pricing, route efficiency, while predicting future demand and giving recommendations based on reviews and ratings.

📝 Read our latest paper on the implementation of machine learning where we go through some of the algorithmic models which are the heart of the gig platforms and the decision makers over the people working through apps.

⚖️ Just a week ago the court in Bologna ruled against Deliveroo's rider-ranking algorithm, citing discrimination. We will continue digging into the soul of the gig economy which makes the marketplaces efficient - the algorithms, during the Spring.

Link to the paper: https://lnkd.in/e2jBe5t

08/01/2021

Looking for an internship within social media and digital marketing during the Spring 2021? Come join us at Appjobs!💥

As an intern, you would work closely with the Project Manager in the content team and help in everyday tasks related to building the brand of the Future of Work Institute specifically and Appjobs in general.

💡 Come up with content ideas and produce the same for social media channels.

📢 Newswatch with focus on trends within the future of work and the gig economy.

🔍 Make research for the content production as well as identifying important stakeholders.

Are you the one we're looking for, or do you know anyone who could be interested? Feel free to share the add or pin them in the comments below!

https://careers.appjobs.com/jobs/1022621-internship-social-media-and-marketing