Future of Work Digest
11th of June 2020
This newsletter highlights the latest news within the Gig Economy and Future of Work. Drawing on appjobs.com’s unique proprietary data and market access, the Appjobs Institute develops analyses and insights on the inner workings of the Gig Economy.
Headlines:
- AppJobs Institute’s Top of mind
- The Institute’s Insights
- Upcoming event: Webinar together with Besedo
- Remote work, comms skills and mental health on the agenda post Covid-19
- After Covid, we may be in a volatile gig economy that relies heavily on the internet
- Will the pandemic push white-collar jobs into the gig economy?
- Easi rider taking on the giants within food delivery
AppJobs Institute’s Top of mind
Natalia Cieslak has been appointed as the new Director of the AppJobs Institute. Natalia has been working with startups in the digital sector for the past nine years. With an educational background in economics and politics, Natalia also gained experience working in politics previously. Currently, Natalia is the Director of the AppJobs Institute and Head of Member Growth at AppJobs. Her work is based on a strong remote work culture and testing the latest innovations alongside her teams.
The Institute’s Insights
- Yesterday we released our Future of Work report. In case you have missed it, you can find the report online and listen to a recorded version of the webinar.
Read the Future of Work Report 2020
- The report breaks down trends within the gig economy and the Future of Work. By analysing the Future of Work from a global perspective, the report answers questions such as will there be work in the future, what work will look like, what the challenges are in the labour market and how can we address them. In addition, the Future of Work report will cover transaction costs and new regulations within the labour market.
- In the report, we have used our own dataset (taken from AppJobs.com’s 1.3 million members in 45 countries) and combined it with external datasets.
Upcoming event: Webinar together with Besedo
- On June 25th, the AppJobs Institute will host a webinar together with Besedo on how to create better user experience with your data.
Remote work, comms skills and mental health on the agenda post Covid- 19
- The post-pandemic workplace can change completely. In the future the way we work can be different with the following scenarios; the whole workforce working remotely, a portion working remotely, or people working at an office with social distancing. With many people working remotely, “chat language” can be a necessary skill when applying for work.
- With many people working from home, they experience the benefits of working remotely. This can change the support focus with companies having remote work budgets so that their employees can purchase necessary working equipment to work from home. According to the article, 19% of people working from home experience loneliness and 60% say that their mental health affects their productivity. This can increase the mental health resources for all employees shifting to remote work.
After Covid, we may be in a volatile gig economy that relies heavily on the internet
- When recovering from a massive unemployment rate, a probable shift can be from full-time jobs to side hustles and multiple gigs.
- The pandemic has shed light on some industries with high potential which has attracted more Venture Capital companies as delivery apps, e-commerce and telemedicine.
- One out of many negative aspects of the pandemic is that many of the in-person businesses will be lost, but today “we may have a more robust on- and off-line landscape of experiences and businesses available after the pandemic”.
Will the pandemic push white-collar jobs into the Gig Economy?
- Today, the gig economy offers low transaction costs, one of the explanations to the success of gig platforms. However the majority of jobs within the gig economy applies to unskilled work such as delivery and driving.
- Companies within white-collar jobs, such as engineers and consultants, have not yet taken advantage of the low costs of embracing the gig economy. The pandemic can work as an eye-opener for firms that realize that they can be able to benefit from technology and lowering the costs that the gig economy provides.
Read Harvard Business Review article
Easi rider taking on the giants within food delivery
- Easi Rider is a food delivery platform that is challenging big delivery platforms like Uber Eats, Deliveroo, DoorDash and Menulog. Easi Rider started in Melbourne in 2014 and is today operating in 11 cities in Australia, in the United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada and Malaysia.
- During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased sales by 15%. Hospitality consultant Ken Burgin states that Easi stands out from the rest with a low commission rate and a large growth in its workforce.
