Austria - Earnings and working life of crowd workers - September 30, 2016

The University of Hertfordshire and Ipsos MORI, in association with the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), UNI Europa and AK Wien carried out a Gig Economy Survey in Austria. It revealed that a substantial minority of workers (18%) earns today a significant part of its income through sharing economy platforms such as Upwork, Uber or Handy, although this income is often modest. Almost half (48%) of crowd workers in the survey who divulged their earnings earn less than €18,000 a year. A particular feature of the gig economy is the fact that the range of work types is extremely broad, from high-skill professional work at one extreme to running errands at the other. The most common type of crowd work, done by some 74% of crowd workers, is office work, short tasks or ‘click work‘ done online – but almost equally large numbers say they are doing creative or IT work (62%) or professional work (49%).

English: http://pr.euractiv.com/pr/austrian-study-shows-gig-economy-rise …

German: https://media.arbeiterkammer.at/wien/PDF/studien/digitalerwandel …  

The brochure: http://www.uni-europa.org/wp-content …  

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