Origami

In this episode of  The Origami Podcast , Wike Been (University of Groningen) discusses the role of digital platforms in the Dutch home care and household services sector. The conversation explores how the lack of formal sector recognition, widespread undeclared work, and fragmented regulation shape platform business models and labour conditions. Drawing on the Helpling court case, the episode hig...

How do national care regimes influence the way digital platforms enter, organise and transform the home care sector? In this episode, Clémence Ledoux and Nicole Teke (University of Nantes) unpack the role of institutional frameworks in shaping platform business models across Europe. Drawing on comparative evidence from the ORIGAMI project, they show how differences in funding schemes, regulatory i...

This episode features  Slavina Spasova  and  Ilda Durri  from the European Social Observatory discussing how EU policies are reshaping long-term care and platform-mediated home care work. They explore how platformisation amplifies existing challenges in the sector—unstable earnings, unpredictable schedules, limited representation and blurred responsibilities—and how the new Platform Work Directive...

In this episode of the Origami Project Podcast, Diana Dovgan, Secretary General of CECOP , discusses the role of cooperatives in Europe’s evolving care ecosystem. She highlights how worker-owned and multi-stakeholder cooperatives can enhance service quality through democratic governance and stronger worker involvement. Dovgan also examines the challenges and potential of cooperative approaches to...

In this episode of the Origami Project Podcast, Samantha Howe from the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) discusses the fast-growing yet vulnerable workforce of home care workers employed through digital platforms. She explores the urgent need to enforce the EU Platform Work Directive, the challenges unions face in organizing isolated and often migrant workers, and the strategies...

In this episode of the Origami Project Podcast, Caroline Murphy, Associate Professor of Employment Relations at the University of Limerick, explores how digital care platforms are emerging within Ireland’s evolving welfare and care landscape. She discusses the pressures of an ageing population, the rise of private and platform-based actors, and the challenges faced by caregivers, families, and pol...