Tiago Vieira
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Tiago Vieira
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PhD in Social and Political Sciences. Interested in algorithmic management, AI, employment relations, platform work and memes on how academics tend to think too highly of themselves and their work.
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Happy to share the first empirical chapter of my PhD thesis accepted for publication - now in the proofs stage at the International Labour Review, the International Labour Organization’s flagship journal!
November 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Curious about the whole dissertation? Don't hesitate to drop me a line – I will gladly share it!

#PhD #algorithmicmanagement #AI #employment
June 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Et voila, for years after joining the EUI @eui-eu.bsky.social i went from #PhDoing to #PhDone! 🥳🤓😎
June 13, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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In an unexpected piece of news, I was surprised by an e-mail from @wiley.com informing me that my article "Platform couriers' self-exploitation: The case study of Glovo" was among top-10 most cited articles published in 2023 in New Technology Work and Employment (@ntwejournal.bsky.social).
March 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Et voilà, 1281 days after I began this journey called #PhD in the @eui-sps.bsky.social, the moment to submit the dissertation has come!

Thanks to all those who, in way or another, made this possible 🫶

Time to get some of it published and look for a job (wink wink, recruiters).
March 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Delighted to have presented and discussed my thesis on #algorithmicmanagement beyond platform work with the team of ⁦‪CoLABOR (colabor.pt) this morning in the sunny Lisbon.

Plenty of thought-provoking questions and comments to keep improving and develop new ideas for once the PhD is PhDone!
January 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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I know it's not a *proper* landmark, but bear with me as I self-congratulate for finishing the first draft of my PhD thesis! 🥳

73626 words
7 chapters (5 of which empirical)
239 pages
397 works cited

Time to touch the grass and dream of a world with only minor revisions.
Ewan McGregor getting exiting a toilet in Trainspotting
December 19, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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📣New paper out!

How do digital platforms change when mandated to reclassify workers as employees?

In our new research published in Socio-Economic Review, Pedro Mendonça and I examine how #Glovo, #UberEats, and #JustEat responded during the first year of the Spanish #LeyRider.

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Picture depicts a print screen of the article's first page. It includes the title "The times, are they changing? Examining platform companies' chameleonic labour process as a response to the Spanish Ley Rider"; the authors, Tiago Vieira and Pedro Mendonca; and the abstract: "This article investigates the effects of the Spanish initiative to deploy a universal presumption of employment relationship for all platform couriers (Ley Rider). Drawing from 36 semi-structured interviews and several non-participant observations in Spain, this article shows that the impact of this initiative has been positive but limited. The eradication of bogus self-employment is a positive development, as it allows workers to access safety nets such as social security and employment rights while preserving valued aspects of their employment model like flexible scheduling. However, this progress is undermined by the platforms' efforts to circumvent regulations through what we term a ‘chameleonic labour process’. Such chameleonic behaviour on the part of the platforms includes: outsourcing labour operations to other companies; maintaining the independent contractor model; and, condoning undocumented work. Despite some progress, workers continue to face insecurity and low wages across all platforms, albeit in varying degrees and in different forms."
November 19, 2024 at 7:00 PM