Author: marianne.furr

Decoding the Online Labour Index (2016–2024)

The Online Labour Index (OLI), a pioneering effort to track the dynamics of the online global freelance labour market, offered valuable insights from 2016 to 2024. By capturing real-time data on job postings and worker profiles across various platforms, the OLI became a crucial resource for researchers studying the gig economy. However, data collection ceased…
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Has ChatGPT affected online labour demand?

There has been a lot of discussion about how large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT are changing the world of work. Data on online labour demand offers a glimpse into how AI tools like ChatGPT are changing the demand for different types of online jobs. This blog post provides a nuanced analysis for the…
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