"The platform economy has been developing and evolving rapidly in the last decade, not only in terms of creating new business models that operate outside traditional ones, but also when it comes to impacting the organisation of work and working conditions of millions of people. Extrapolations of current trends in employment suggest that 42.7 million people in the EU-27 will opt to work in the platform economy by 2030. In 2021, the FES Competence Centre on the Future of Work initiated the Mapping Platform Economy project. This project sheds some lights on the complexity of platform ecosystem by providing insights into different aspects of platform work at the national level in over 30 countries. The data was collected with the help of national experts in the partnership with FES country office between 2021 and 2023. Our analysis shows that while there are major differences across European countries, in terms of regulatory aspects, it is still uncertain how many active platforms are in a country, how many people are working on them and with what employment status they work. This type of information is particularly important in addressing the legal responsibility of platform companies, not only in terms of the quality of services provided, but also with a view toward fair working conditions for workers employed by these platforms (Sabanova & Badoi, 2022)1 . This publication represents a collection of 26 factsheets that look at (1) regulatory aspects, (2) recent legal developments, (3) characteristics of platform workers, (4) characteristics of popular platform companies, (5) the general perception of platform work and (6) collective actions and court cases."

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