Posts tagged: outsourcing

Introducing the Online Labour Observatory: Data on female participation in the remote gig economy and more

20 May 2021 0

We are excited to announce a new collaboration between the Oxford Internet Institute’s iLabour team and the International Labour Organization (ILO), a United Nations agency. This collaboration is called the Online Labour Observatory—a digital data hub for researchers, policy makers, journalists, and the public interested in the development of online labour markets. Many software developers, graphic… Read More: Introducing the Online Labour Observatory: Data on female participation in… »

How the world’s largest companies use online freelancing platforms: New report

29 August 2017 0

Online labour platforms allow companies to source work from freelancers over the Internet on an on-demand basis. We know that this phenomenon grew about 26 percent globally over the past year, and there is an increasing amount of research available on workers who work through these platforms (including our own). But there is a gap… Read More: How the world’s largest companies use online freelancing platforms: New… »

Online Labour Index wins Oxford data visualisation prize

29 June 2017 0

We are happy to announce that the Online Labour Index was awarded the first prize in the OxTALENT awards data visualisation category! The annual competition is organised by the University of Oxford IT services to recognize innovative uses of digital technology in learning, research, and public outreach. The Online Labour Index (OLI) is the first… Read More: Online Labour Index wins Oxford data visualisation prize »

Which countries and occupations are embracing the online gig economy?

19 September 2016 0

The Online Labour Index (OLI) is a new economic indicator that provides an online labour market equivalent of conventional labour market statistics. It is available online as an interactive visualization and automatically updating data set. In this post, we will use the index to examine some basic questions about the online gig economy: In which countries… Read More: Which countries and occupations are embracing the online gig economy? »

How the Online Labour Index is constructed

18 September 2016 0

The Online Labour Index is an index that measures the utilization of online labour platforms over time and across countries and occupations. Online labour platforms are here understood as platforms through which buyers and sellers of labour or services transact fully digitally. That is, we require that the worker and employer are matched digitally, the… Read More: How the Online Labour Index is constructed »