Press

Fairwork in the Press:

• ITWeb (10/11/2020) – New Code of Good Practice to protect gig workers in SA
• Financial Mail South Africa (10/09/2020) – SA ride-hailing business faces legal speed bump
• BBC (28/08/20) – How algorithms keep workers in the dark
• Herald Live (21/05/2020) – “Jobbing” through unemployment crisis
• MoneyWeb (21/05/2020) – The gig economy – will there be anything left?
• eNCA All Angles (20/05/2020) – [Television interview, no title]
• IOL (20/05/2020) – Gig workers hit hard by Covid-19
• Engineering News (19/05/2020) – How Covid-19 has affected the gig economy in South Africa
• IT Online (19/05/2020) – Covid-19 and its effect on SA’s gig economy
• Gadget (19/05/2020) – Saving the gig economy
• Staffing Industry Analysts (06/05/2020) – Gig Economy Firms must do more to protect workers, report says.
• Bot Populi (01/05/2020) – It’ a no-win for gig workers in the Covid-19 moment
• TechRound (30/04/2020) – “Uber and Deliveroo’s ‘Charter Of Good Work’ Is Nothing But Fairwashing”, The Fairwork project
• Yiba (24/03/2020) – The Fairwork Project
• Fast Company (23/03/2020) – SA gig economy report: The truth about working for Uber-like companies
• Cape Talk (20/03/2020) – Impact of Covid-19 on the gig economy (Radio interview)
• Daily Maverick (20/03/2020) – SA gig workers may be vital, and yet vulnerable, during the pandemic
• HyperText (18/03/2020) – South Africa’s COVID-19 crisis brings gig economy workers into sharper focus
• UOL (03/02/2020) – Pago Por Clique: A promessa de trabalho remoto da era digital se transformou numa servidão contemporânea
• Carta Capital (25/11/2019) – Como construir uma “gig economy” mais justa em quatro etapas
• America Economia (21/11/2019) – “Los trabajadores de plataformas, las plataformas y la economía gig están definidos por la vulnerabilidad de los trabajadores”
• NextConomy (22/08/2019) – Fairwork zet 5 standaarden uit voor ‘gigwork’
• BBC Business Daily (02/08/2019) – A global gig economy: Are freelancing platforms threatening worker’s rights?
• The Wire (01/08/2019) – As Zomato Confronts Communal Bias, Liberal Stand Can Brings Costs, and Benefits Too
• Retina (27/05/2019) – El futuro del trabajo “La automatización promueve la inequidad”
• University World News (17/05/2019) – Innovation for the public good in a deeply unequal society
• The Deccan Herald (16/04/2019) – Flipkart secures highest score in IIITV rankings (Print Only)
• Diginomica ( 16/04/2019) – Building a fair working environment for the gig economy – a UK/South African idea takes shape
• Der Tagesspiegel (15/04/2019) – Plattformökonomie braucht Mindeststandards
• Business Live (11/04/2019) – Fairwork exposes exploitation in gig economy amid regulatory vacuum
• Tech World (09/04/2019) – Could a working conditions rating system protect gig economy workers?
• Newsclick (02/04/2019) – Ola, Uber, FoodPanda are some of the worst employers, finds study
• New Internationalist (01/04/2019) – Holding platforms accountable to digital workers’ rights
• ITWebAfrica (29/03/2019) – Fairwork rating system for digital economy pilots in SA
• Business Insider (27/03/2019) – In India, Flipkart tops the ‘fairness’ quotient for gig economy workers: Report
• YourStory (27/03/2019) – Flipkart, Dunzo, Bigbasket rank highest in ‘fair pay’ on gig economy scoreboard
• Gooruf (27/03/2019) – Flipkart ranked highly for ‘fairness’ of working conditions in India gig platform study
• Daily Maverick (26/03/2019) – Uber, Taxify score poorly in Oxford University study on South African digital platform working conditions
• Tech Crunch (26/03/2019) – Flipkart ranked highly for ‘fairness’ of working conditions in India gig platform study
• All Africa (26/03/2019) – South Africa: Uber, Taxify Score Poorly in Oxford University Study On South African Digital Platform Working Conditions
• IT News Africa (25/03/2019) – Rating working conditions in the digital economy with Fairwork
• Quartz India (16/03/2019) – The ugly truth behind being a gig-economy worker in India
• The East African (15/03/2019) – What will the popularity of online shopping in Africa mean for jobs?
• New Internationalist (28/02/2019) – Networked but commodified: digital labour in the remote gig economy
• Open Democracy (16/12/2018) – Grassroots action prominent in the platform economy
• The Atlantic (31/08/2018) – The Online Gig Economy’s ‘Race to the Bottom’
• The University of Cape Town News (28/08/2018) – Project to protect workers in digital gig economy
• Red Pepper (18/06/2018) – Tyranny of the Mechanical Turk: The rise and rise of digital platform work 
• WIRED (21/03/2017) – The Hidden Dangers of the Global Gig-Economy