Timing Is Money: The Flexibility and Precariousness of Login Employment

Yakubovich, Valery; Galperin, Roman V.; Mansouri, Mouna El

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“…The analysis shows how online platforms put pressures and constraints on freelancers’ time through the mechanism of task allocation. The perpetual competition for short‐term jobs (gigs) in the general context when a sufficient amount of work is not guaranteed is a powerful structural factor shaping freelancers’ schedules (Yakubovich et al, 2018). In our sample, only 3.6% of all participants were able to win a contest and an average contest attracted 45 participants.…”

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“…As freelancers log in to an app from home or elsewhere, they become subject to the platform authority which directly or indirectly controls the allocation, scheduling, remuneration and evaluation of work. This 'login employment' has important temporal implications (Yakubovich et al, 2018). Schörpf et al, (2017a) reported on how platforms exacerbate general temporal pressures facing self-employed workers in creative occupations.…”

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“…The high visibility of the work process on online platforms also has far‐reaching consequences for the time behaviour of freelancers, as response times and timely delivery are key criteria against which freelancers are rated by clients (Nemkova et al, 2019; Schörpf et al, 2017a). Overall, gig economy workers’ formal control over their schedules is undermined by the uncertainty of paid work (Yakubovich et al, 2018). In other words, temporal flexibility has less value when a sufficient amount of work is not guaranteed.…”

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Always on across time zones: Invisible schedules in the online gig economy

Shevchuk

Strebkov

Tyulyupo

2021

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This study investigates work schedules in online labour markets, operating in 24/7 mode across spatial borders and time zones. Focusing on largely hidden and invisible work of freelancers such as searching for jobs and communicating with clients, the study documents how platforms put pressures and constraints on freelancers’ time through the mechanism of task allocation. We use data on 241,582 timestamped messages posted by 29,759 unique users in 4082 contests on a leading Russian‐language freelance platform to reveal how freelancers’ efforts to get a job make them work nonstandard hours, including evenings, nights and weekends. Freelancers have to be responsive and adapt their schedules to clients’ needs. Freelancers who live in time zones which differ from their clients are particularly disadvantaged, working a greater proportion of nonstandard hours. The findings emerging from the study contribute to current debates on the gig economy and a new time‐work discipline.

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Always on across time zones: Invisible schedules in the online gig economy

Shevchuk

Strebkov

Tyulyupo

2021

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“… Login hours and late-night deliveries : Gig workers generally work through zero-hour contracts where they have the liberty to choose their work hours – and they're paid accordingly – considering themselves as the secondary contributors to household incomes. Hence this is called login employment, where it entirely depends on the platform to direct the work to the gig workers according to the market demand (Yakubovich et al. , 2018).…”

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Barriers to entry of gig workers in the gig platforms: exploring the dark side of the gig economy

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Rajagopal

Sheorey

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PurposeThe alternative arrangements to traditional employment have become a promising area in the gig economy with the technological advancements dominating every work. The purpose of this paper is to explore the barriers to the entry of gig workers in gig platforms pertaining to the food delivery sector. It proposes a framework using interpretive structural modelling (ISM) for which systematic literature review is done to extract the variables. This analysis helps to examine the relationship between the entry barriers to gig platforms. The study further proposes strategies to reduce the entry barriers in gig sector which would help to enhance productivity and generate employment opportunities.Design/methodology/approachThe study uses interpretive structural model (ISM) to ascertain the relationship between various entry barriers of the gig workers to the gig platforms. It also validates the relationship and understand the reasons of their association along with MICMAC analysis. The model was designed by consulting the gig workers and the experts allied to food delivery gig platforms namely Zomato and Swiggy.FindingsIt was observed that high competition, longer login hours and late-night deliveries are the significant barriers with high driving power and low dependence power. Poor payment structures and strict terms and conditions for receiving the incentives are interdependent on each other and have moderate driving and dependence power. The expenses borne by the gig workers, such as Internet, fuel and vehicle maintenance expenses have high dependence power and low driving power. Hence, they are relatively less significant than other barriers.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is confined to food delivery sector of India, without considering other important sectors of gig economy for generalizing the framework. As the study is based on forming an ISM framework through literature review only, it does not consider other research methods for analysing the entry barriers to the gig platforms.Practical implicationsThe study attempts to dig out the low entry barriers for gig workers in food delivery platforms as there is a dearth of analysis of these factors. This study would weave them using ISM framework to help the gig platforms overcome these barriers at various levels, thus adding to the body of literature.Originality/valueThe study discusses the need for understanding relationship between the entry barriers in the form of ISM model to identify the dependent and driving factors of the same.

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“…Таким образом, в отличие от фабрики или офиса работник юридически и физически отделен от (виртуального) места, где в действительности осуществляется организация его труда. Термины «залогиненный труд» (logged labour) [Huws 2016] или «залогиненная занятость» (login employment) [Yakubovich, Galperin, El Mansouri 2018], применяемые к платформенным работникам, подчеркивают не только виртуальность трудового контекста, но и его замкнутость в рамках определенной информационной системы. Веб-сайты и мобильные приложения являются обособленным виртуальным пространством, в рамках которого осуществляются многообразные формы власти платформенных компаний.…”

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From Factory to Platform: Autonomy and Control in the Digital Economy

Вячеславович¹

2020

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Андрей В. Шевчук ка и типы трудовых цифровых платформ, источники платформенной власти, формы алгоритмического управления, роль пользовательских рейтингов, а также основные направления дискуссий о регулировании платформенной занятости. Автор концептуализирует проблемы трудовой автономии и контроля с помощью двух идеальных типов платформ: маркетплейса и теневой корпорации.

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Timing Is Money: The Flexibility and Precariousness of Login Employment

Cited by 6 publications

References 32 publications

Always on across time zones: Invisible schedules in the online gig economy

Always on across time zones: Invisible schedules in the online gig economy

Barriers to entry of gig workers in the gig platforms: exploring the dark side of the gig economy

From Factory to Platform: Autonomy and Control in the Digital Economy

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