Metamorphosis of work: how to face new technological challenges

The digital platform marketplace has stimulated new employment practices which lead to reflection on the role that labor law must play in the process of digital transformation of industry and the economy. The interference of ICTs has destabilized the system, weakening the foundations on which work relationships relate, causing the disruption of the typical coordinates of the time space of the performance and the abandonment of the concept of physical proximity to marry the proximity functional. One of the most evident manifestations of the disruption and of the relativity that time and space assume is due to the phenomenon of work on the platform named also virtual market place. Although these facilities have the potential to create benefits for their clients or workers, as well as for their consumers labor law questions the new protagonists of the working relationship trying to understand if the relationships that the platforms contribute to create are manifestations of real work activity (and as such to be protected).