30,000 people worked through digital platforms

Through digital platforms, most rented accommodation or sold products

Last year, approximately 30,000 of Slovenian residents aged 15–64 had the experience of working via digital platforms in the last 12 months. Through online platforms or mobile applications, they offered their services, transported people, food or goods, sold their products or rented accommodation. The dominant forms of work through online platforms were the sale of products and the rental of various types of accommodation.

Young people represented something moreč as ča quarter of all who worked through digital platforms
Among those who worked through digital platforms, both sexes were approximately equally represented. Around 60 % of them were between 35 and 54 years old, a few more as ča third of people who worked via online platforms were represented by young people (15–34 years old), a few moreč as a tenth, older than 54 years. 

Most worked less than 30 working hours per month

A little more as half of all those who worked via digital platforms also did so in the month before the survey. Most of them completed less than 30 hours of work. For more for two-thirds of workers, the income from this work represented less than half of the total monthly income. 

The majority of those who worked via digital platforms last year were employed or self-employed (86 %), while the rest defined themselves as students, unemployed or retired.

Digital platforms have contributed to new forms of employment on the labor market

When working through digital platforms, it is a relationship between three actors: 
- providers of a certain service or product ("platform worker"),
– the customer (natural or legal entity) and
- a platform or application, a digital online service that enables interaction between two or more; different (interdependent) groups of providers and customers.

Among the platforms that mediate the exchange of services and products, it is possible to detect different levels of (exercise) control over workers. Some of them have only a minor role and act as websites for easier exchange of services, while others, by setting limits and conditions of payment and location or time of work, intervene both in the organization and in the control of execution.

Most flexible in determining their working hours

Among those who worked via digital platforms in the last month (i.e. half of all who did any work via online platforms in 2022), 90 % persons were able to set their own working hours for tasks, related to this work, or they were able to schedule the work independently within certain time frames. Three of the four can be service prices or products they determined themselves or they set the price in agreement with the platform or customers.