Project Duration: 2025 - 2029
The project examines the impacts of rapid technological change on the labour market in the context of the platform economy. It focuses on the working conditions of platform workers who are exposed to precarity and the risks of algorithmic management. For the first time in the Czech context, it systematically provides missing data. The project’s aim is to work with key stakeholders to identify ways of reducing the disadvantages faced by workers.
The project responds to the new phenomenon of platform work, the benefits and risks of which need to be mapped. By collecting data, we aim to answer these questions: who are platform workers, in which sectors do they work, why did they choose platform work, and under what working conditions. We will then situate platform work within a sociological and economic analysis of the labour market, using the concepts of labor precarity and intersectionality. We also aim at mapping the risks posed by algorithmic management perceived by platform workers. Given the ongoing implementation of the Directive 2021/762/EC, we also aim to propose concrete recommendations leading to the improvement of working conditions for platform workers, and to create room for discussion with the relevant social partners.
Project No:: TQ23000297
Principal Investigator:
Principal investigator outside the institute:
- Jaromír Mazák
Members of the project team:
Co-investigators outside the institute:
- Kateřina Duspivová, Doris Borovcová, Roman Kašša
Topics:
Digitalization, Gender, Work
Contracting authority:
Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
Department:
