Working on Global Internet Platforms in an Algorithmic Management Context
Paweł Nowik
Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II , Polandhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1824-0884
Abstract
For several years now, global Internet platforms have become a space for new forms of work provision. Some of them direct their offer to the local labour market, others operate globally. The feature that distinguishes this form of providing work from traditional ones is the so-called algorithmic management. It consists in the fact that a specially designed algorithm assigns, optimizes and evaluates the way of performing individual tasks and specific service providers. Algorithmic management in the work environment is a field of knowledge about which, despite the rapid technological growth, we still do not know much. The consequence of far-reaching integration of man with artificial intelligence, within the framework of algorithmic management, is a number of legal and ethical problems. One of them is whether this type of service provision should be covered by protective regulations developed over decades on the basis of labour law. Assuming a positive answer, one should ask what are the characteristics of algorithmic management considered in the light of the entire process of employment on an Internet platform?
Keywords:
algorithmic management, Internet platforms, algorithmic assignment, employment on an Internet platformReferences
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