Roman Kormann Digitally organised platform work can offer advantages for workers on platforms, such as low-threshold access to work opportunities, mobility and high flexibility. This is especially true of highly skilled work often associated with business innovation or creative work in freelance marketplaces. Companies can use platform-mediated work to provide access to knowledge and thus promote innovation, accelerate processes and save money. At the same time, however, new forms of digital outsourcing and platform employment reinforce tendencies to precarisation, lead to distortions of competition and contribute to a further shift in the balance of power, to the detriment of workers.