Technodiscipline of Work: Does Post-Pandemic Platform Employment Generate New Psychosocial Risks?

Llosa, Juan C.; Agulló-Tomás, Esteban

doi:10.3390/ijerph19148609

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“…Discussing the downsides, the discourse on precarity (Kalleberg & Vallas, 2018;Vallas & Schor, 2020) due to on-call work, piecework (Stanford, 2022), and algorithmic control (Rahman, 2021) predominates (Schor et al, 2020). Furthermore, isolated online work has several long-term consequences for physical and mental health (Llosa & Agulló-Tomás, 2022), social protection, and financial stability. From a more macro perspective, online platform work has become a source of just-in-time workers, often bypassing labor laws and employment contracts (De Stefano, 2015), providing an "extreme form of commodification" (Howcroft & Bergvall-Kåreborn, 2019, p. 24).…”

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Dependency and Social Recognition of Online Platform Workers: Evidence From a Mixed‐Methods Study

Klaus,

Haas,

Lamura

2023

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This article is about those who need or want to make a living from working on online platforms. Moreover, questions of financial dependence are related to why this work is done and what social recognition the workers expect from it. Our mixed‐methods approach captures this heterogeneous field of online platform work by dividing it into three categories: (a) microwork, (b) mesowork, and (c) macrowork. Microwork involves offering short, repetitive tasks to an anonymous crowd, such as human intelligence tasks. Macrowork consists of market‐based freelance platforms offering highly skilled professionals complex and more extensive tasks. In between, mesowork covers platforms offering specialized tasks such as software testing or content creation. While income opportunities and working conditions vary widely between these platforms, common features include self‐employment and the ability to work from anywhere. Quantitative results show that only for a few highly skilled workers does income from platform work account for a crucial share of their household income. Surprisingly, workers’ household incomes do not differ by skill level. Qualitative results complement this picture by giving us a more contextual understanding of the significant variation among workers. We find cases in which monetary remuneration is not the only reason for doing platform work. So, despite all the criticism of precarious working conditions, platform work does have some positive aspects and can also hold the potential for the social inclusion of people who cannot participate in traditional labor markets. This article contributes to these discussions by providing workers’ perspectives on the risks and challenges of online platform work, acknowledging their different living situations, socioeconomic status, and health issues.

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Dependency and Social Recognition of Online Platform Workers: Evidence From a Mixed‐Methods Study

Klaus,

Haas,

Lamura

2023

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“…The social determinants of health (SDH) are defined as the circumstances in which people are born, grow up, work, live, and age, including the broader set of forces and systems that influence the conditions of everyday life [1][2][3]. The COVID-19 pandemic has spread in a context of social and economic inequalities that become social determinants affecting health [4,5] and resulting in a syndemic; i.e., the prevalence and severity cannot be reduced to any one of the many variables involved in it, suggesting a global composite with several synergistic elements, including viral disease, social differences, economic and mental components, that should be considered when setting priorities for programming action [6][7][8], especially with vulnerable populations [9][10][11].…”

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Psychosocial Risk in COVID Context: The Impact of Economic Factors and Labour Protection Policy (ERTEs) in Spain

Iglesias-Martínez

Legaspi

Agulló-Tomás

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The pandemic and the current situation have caused working poverty and therefore social risk, which implies a deterioration in well-being, affecting mental health and anxiety. In this context, the employment situation tends to be regarded ignoring previous social differences, economic and mental components, which should be considered when establishing priorities to program a global action of various synergistic elements. The study involved 4686 people (3500 women and 1186 men). They all completed a questionnaire that evaluated their anxiety, employment situation, income, changes of working status, and fears of becoming infected at the workplace. The results show the need to take into account the social determinants of mental health in vulnerable groups due to socioeconomic factors, job changes, contractual changes, age, or gender, considering the need to generate strategies to manage mental health and deal with it at a structural level, therefore displacing individual focus policies and interventions. An example of these policies are ERTEs (record of temporary employment regulation), constituting a perceived measure of protection and acting as an effective buffer against the economic crisis, thus reducing anxiety.

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The effect of precarious employment on suicidal ideation: A serial mediation model with contractual temporality and job insecurity

Llosa,

Iglesias-Martínez,

Agulló-Tomás

et al. 2024

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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Suicidal ideation is a variable prior to suicidal behaviour and one of the main producers of risk of death by suicide. The sample consisted of a total of 1,288 people living in Spain who at the time of answering the questionnaire were in active employment. Contractual status is a significant variable for the prediction of suicidal ideation. Contractual temporality is a risk factor for suicidal ideation, whereas permanent employment is a protective factor. In suicidal ideation, job insecurity is a mediating risk factor and a key dimension of job precariousness because of the adverse effects on mental health it causes. Job insecurity interacts with objective causes of precariousness and is presented as a necessary variable for understanding the relationship between these material causes and suicidal thoughts.

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Technodiscipline of Work: Does Post-Pandemic Platform Employment Generate New Psychosocial Risks?

Abstract: In the publication Uses of work and forms of governance: precarious work as a tool of discipline Alonso and Fernández [...]

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References 22 publications

Dependency and Social Recognition of Online Platform Workers: Evidence From a Mixed‐Methods Study

Dependency and Social Recognition of Online Platform Workers: Evidence From a Mixed‐Methods Study

Psychosocial Risk in COVID Context: The Impact of Economic Factors and Labour Protection Policy (ERTEs) in Spain

The effect of precarious employment on suicidal ideation: A serial mediation model with contractual temporality and job insecurity

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