The Guardian (20.08.2018) Drivers and couriers for companies like Uber and Amazon may be at a higher risk of crashing because of the demands of gig economy work, a new study suggests.

Economic and labour market transformations in Europe have led to an increase in non-standard work and new forms of self-employment as well as an upsurge in transitions from one labour market status to another — with great variations between countries, sectors, age groups and gender. In this context, European social protection systems are facing growing challenges in covering social risks for these workers.  

FREELANCERS DESEAN SEGURIDAD SOCIAL

Prestaciones laborales, anhelo de los trabajadores independientes Tanto asalariados como quienes trabajan por su cuenta coinciden en que deben hacer algo en lo que se refiere al ahorro para su retiro.

By SARA HOROWITZ APR 18, 2017 

For the 55 million Americans who make their living as freelance workers, tax day is more than just a headache. It's an annual fleecing. Freelancers now constitute a third of the American workforce, and over the past decade, 94% of new jobs added to the U.S. economy were created in the so-called gig economy. Yet freelancers must retrofit themselves into an archaic system designed for the industrial era, one that taxes independent workers disproportionately even as they benefit less from the social safety net.

Cada vez más profesionales de América Latina trabajan ‘online’ para compañías globalizadas, cobran muy bien en moneda dura aunque a costa de resignar condiciones laborales. Los argentinos son los mejor pagados, por encima de los mexicanos y brasileños, aunque éstos representan el 50% de la oferta regional al mayor mercado global de trabajo independiente del mundo: la tercerización en ‘freelancers’.

Los uruguayos que eligen trabajar para el mundo

Por María Noel Durán Julio 6, 2016

Diferentes sectores proponen la regulación del teletrabajo, una opción cada vez más elegida por los empresarios y trabajadores uruguayos

Teclear desde la rambla, el Parque Rodó o el sofá de su casa es una posibilidad cada vez más factible para los uruguayos que eligen trabajar para el mundo.

Reuisitos administrativos de formalización para freelancers en América Latina

EL REPORTE DE TRABAJO REMOTO Y EMPRENDIMIENTO DE WORKANA ES REALIZADO ANUALMENTE PARA DESCUBRIR CÓMO ESTÁ EL MERCADO DE TRABAJO EN TODA AMÉRICA LATINA Y MEDIR EL CRECIMIENTO DE LA MODALIDAD FREELANCEY DEL MUNDO EMPRENDEDOR. ¡CONOCE LOS RESULTADOS!

The sharing economy: Why people participate in collaborative consumption

Juho Hamari School of Information Science, University of Tampere

Mimmi Sjöklint Copenhagen Business School

Antti Ukkonen Helsinki Institute for Information Technology

Centre for European Policy Studies (02.07.2018) Focusing on Austria, this report provides an overview of online platforms matching supply and demand for paid work, looking at different platforms and activities, working conditions, legal developments, and trends and changes in the labour market. It discusses the different concepts and definitions of platform work and describe how platforms operate. Furthermore, it will look at the characteristics of platforms, reflecting the extraordinary heterogeneity of this new form of employment.