

Platform work provides essential income and opportunities to many. However, lacking protection from employment law or collective bodies, many platform workers face low pay, precarity, and poor and dangerous working conditions.
Fairwork, at its essence, is a way of imagining a different, and fairer, platform economy than the one we have today. By evaluating platforms against measures of fairness, we hope to not just show what the platform economy is, but also what it can be.
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To use transparent principles to score fair working practices across the platform economy. Platforms can also request to be scored by us.
To reduce the information asymmetry between workers, firms and consumers – so that end-users have the ability to make informed, ethical choices about the digital services they buy.
To improve the working conditions of people employed in the digital platform economy, and encourage firms to monitor and improve job quality on their platforms.