The ‘gig economy’ encompasses a wide range of jobs, platforms and workers. In this article, we provide the first quantitative evidence in support of the model of job quality developed by Wood et al. that predicts divergence across local and remote platform work. Specifically, we find that remote platform work entails significantly better pay, more flexibility, greater influence over how to do the job, a greater sense of doing useful work, better health and safety, less pain, and less work-related insecurity. In contrast, local platform work entails greater organisational influence and less physical isolation. We explain these disparities by considering how divergent organisational forms emerge across the local/remote divide as a result of specific differences in platform technologies and worker skills.

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超越“零工经济”：在平台工作中实现工作质量的可变体验

“零工经济”包括广泛的工作、平台和工人。在本文中，我们提供了第一个定量证据来支持 Wood 等人开发的工作质量模型，该模型预测了本地和远程平台工作之间的差异。具体来说，我们发现远程平台工作需要更高的薪酬、更大的灵活性、对如何完成工作的更大影响、更强的做有用工作的感觉、更好的健康和安全、更少的痛苦以及更少的与工作相关的不安全感。相比之下，本地平台工作需要更大的组织影响力和更少的物理孤立。我们通过考虑由于平台技术和员工技能的特定差异而在本地/远程鸿沟中出现的不同组织形式来解释这些差异。