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Encouraging the people working through digital platforms to use business account could annually bring up to 68 million euros in tax revenues into the state budget, shows the Foresight Centre study “Platform Work in Estonia in 2021”, which was published on 2 June.

The incomes of the people who work through digital platforms are lower than the Estonian average, shows the Foresight Centre study “Platform Work in Estonia in 2021”, which was published on Wednesday, 2 June.

Nearly 56,000 people work through digital platforms every week in Estonia, shows the Foresight Centre study “Platform Work in Estonia in 2021”, which was published on Wednesday, 2 June. During the last year, more than 160,000 people have done platform work at least once.

The COVID-19 crisis has sped up the transformation of traditional ways of working and stratification of labour market, which lowers the social protection of workers. The future of social protection was discussed at the Foresight Centre webinar “Are Individual Savings Accounts the Future of Social Protection?” held on 22 April.

One of the most important findings in the study “Labour Market 2035” of the Foresight Centre was that understanding the needs of talents and recognising their special skills and knowledge is an important challenge for the future labour market.

The Foresight Centre is happy to announce the launch of several fascinating studies that provide information for generating scenarios on productivity, labour market and (e-)governance.