“…Literature is controversial regarding the question of the flexibility provided by digital work platforms, emphasizing two arguments. On the one hand, the benefits of platform work often mentioned are flexibility and autonomy (Del Bono, 2019 ; Wood et al, 2019 ; Álvarez-Hernández and Pérez-Zapata, 2021 ; Rani and Furrer, 2021 ), as workers are argued to be able to choose the amount of work and the tasks they wish to perform, as well as the time and place where they perform them (Rani and Dhir, 2020 ; Anwar and Graham, 2021 ), and the possibility of earning extra income (Barnes et al, 2015 ; Stewart and Stanford, 2017 ; Jabagi et al, 2019 ; Rani and Dhir, 2020 ). Furthermore, it fuels individuals' preferences to work from home (Forde et al, 2017 ), whether for health reasons, household burdens, the simple fact that they enjoy being in their homes (ILO, 2018 ) or for enabling the reduction of expenses and of time spent on public transport (Wood et al, 2019 ).…”