Pay crash looms for online gig workers

• Autores: Timothy Revell
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3119, 2017, pág. 15
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A huge number of people in South-East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa looking for online "gig economy" work could cause a race to the bottom on pay and conditions, according to a report from the Oxford Internet Institute. Over three years, Mark Graham and his colleagues conducted 152 interviews and surveyed 456 workers. Seventy per cent of those surveyed said gig work was one of their main sources of income, but nearly half said they felt easily replaceable. One gig-work platform had 1.75 million registrants, but only 200,000 had completed an hour's work or earned at least US$1. The team says demand for such work will get higher because a billion more people are expected to get online by 2020, the majority of whom will come from low- and middle-income countries.