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1. Rethinking Work in the Collaborative Economy
- SMEs Assembly 2016 -
Marco To rregro s s a
Secretary General, European Forum of Independent Professionals
Managing Director, European Sharing Economy Coalition
Bratislava, 25 November 2016

2. Type Mode Place Status Client Full Time / Part Time
Manual High-skill Online Offline Home Empl. site Employee Self-empl. Individual Company Main job Second job
Upwork * * * * * *
Click-worker * * * * * *
Taskrabbit * * * * * *
Wonolo * * * * * *
Mechanical Turk * * * * * *
Mila * * * * * *
Eden McCallum * * * * * *
Adapted from Ursula Huws, Platform Labour or Crowdsourcing 2015
Diversity of Work Arrangements

3. Type
Contract
Length
Place
Protection
Employee
Open-ended
Decades
In-house
Linked to
premises
Subcontractor
Temporary
Years
Out-house
Linked to
status
Freelancer
Self-employed
Months/Days
Home/Cowor-
king space
Linked to
individual
On demand
Services
Hours/
Minutes
Platforms
To be
invented
Adapted from Thomas Malone, The spectrum of jobs
Jobs for Life Become Jobs for a Day

4. Eurostat, 2015

5. Combined forces
• Globalisation
• Faster lifestyles
• Technological revolution
• Demographic changes
• Increased mobility
• Development of the service sector
• New production patterns
• Online platforms
• Eroding brand and employer loyalties
• Need for specialised ad hoc skills
• Cost effective online advertising
• Access to better infrastructures
Work is nowadays …
1. Much more accessible
2. In much smaller pieces
3. From a greater number of providers
4. Unbundled from a job
Nick Grossman, The Unbundling of the Job
Structural shifts shaping a new world of work

6. Innovation Zones With an “Uber for Jobs”
Wingham Rowan, Central Database of Available Hours (CEDAH)

7. Marco Torregrossa
about.me/marcotorregrossa
Secretary General
European Forum of Independent Professionals
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