2025-08-22
On 12 August, ZDFheute reported on current developments at the delivery service Lieferando and also obtained a scientific assessment from Fabian Hoose. The report focuses on the increasing use of subcontractors and the reduction of in-house jobs at platform companies.
On 12 August, ZDFheute reported on current developments at the delivery service Lieferando and also obtained a scientific assessment from Fabian Hoose. The report focuses on the increasing use of subcontractors and the reduction of in-house jobs at platform companies.
Research findings from the PlaSoSi project (‘Platform Economy and Social Security’) show that outsourcing and flexibilisation strategies are widespread in the platform economy and pose new challenges for social security systems.
Link to the ZDFheute article: https://www.zdfheute.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/lieferando-stellenabbau-subunternehmen-outsourcing-fleetlery-100.html
Link to the final report of the project (IAQ Research, 2025/02): https://duepublico2.uni-due.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/duepublico_derivate_00082483/IAQ-Forschung_2025_02.pdf
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