Platform workers are individuals who offer services via online platforms, typically on a freelance or contract basis

Despite Bangladesh being the world’s second-largest supplier of online labour, accounting for 16% of the global online workforce, women workers in the country’s platform economy continue to face systemic neglect, lack of legal protections, and frequent violations of basic workers’ rights.

Experts noted that although women are increasingly joining the platform-based informal economy, providing services like domestic help, childcare, and beauty care, their safety, dignity, and rights are often ignored by platform operators and policy frameworks.

These concerns were brought to light this evening (31 July) at a seminar titled “Precarity of Women Platform Workers: Bangladesh Scenario and Agenda,” organised by DataSense – iSocial.

Read the full article here: https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/women-platform-workers-struggling-without-basic-protections-rights-experts-1201636

Read the report here: https://datasociety.net/library/the-formalization-of-social-precarities/