EMCC European Monitoring Centre on Change

Platform work, the matching of supply of and demand for paid work through an online platform or an app, emerged onto European labour markets about a decade ago. While still small in scale, it is growing and evolving into a variety of forms. Different types of platform work have significantly different implications for the employment and working conditions of the affiliated workers. Policy responses aimed at ensuring decent conditions in platform work should take these differences in consideration to be effective, rather than applying a one-size-fits-all approach. Eurofound’s recent policy brief 'Platform work: Maximising the potential while safeguarding standards?' highlights the main opportunities and challenges of specific types of platform work and illustrates some of the first attempts at addressing them in the EU. More initiatives of governments, social partners, the platform economy and other stakeholders addressing the emerging issues can be found in Eurofound’s web repository on the platform economy.

• Publication: Platform work: Maximising the potential while safeguarding standards?
• Platform economy repository: Typology
• Platform economy repository: Initiatives