ABSTRACT. Employing recent research results covering the relationship between contingent work arrangements, job precariousness, and marginal social identities, and building my argument by drawing on data collected from Business Insider Intelligence, Edelman Intelligence, SAP SE, Upwork, and YouGov Omnibus, I performed analyses and made estimates regarding proportion of satisfied with work-related benefits by type of gig economy activity (%), most commonly used platforms by UK gig economy workers (%), type of gig economy work by total annual income from all sources (UK, %), how often individuals engage in freelancing (%), the split of organizational spend across employees, non-payroll workers, and service providers (%), and level of satisfaction by importance of gig economy income (%). Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the collected data.
JEL codes: L14; L86

Keywords: online labor platform; contingent work arrangement; job precariousness

How to cite: Lemke, Roderick (2019). “Digital Services Mediated by Online Labor Platforms: Contingent Work Arrangements, Job Precariousness, and Marginal Social Identities,” Psychosociological Issues in Human Resource Management 7(1): 66–71. doi:10.22381/PIHRM7120198

Received 18 January 2019 • Received in revised form 22 April 2019
Accepted 26 April 2019 • Available online 1 May 2019