21 May 2025, 13:06 | Updated: 21 May 2025, 13:12

By Professor Mark Graham

The UK–EU Youth Mobility Scheme offers real promise.

It could give young people the freedom to live, travel and work across borders. But without stronger protections, it risks feeding a generation into an online gig economy built on broken promises and systemic exploitation.

This kind of work, also known as cloudwork, involves remote, task-based jobs like transcription, data labelling, software development or design. It’s a go-to option for many looking for flexible income. The World Bank estimates up to 435 million people worldwide are already working this way —........

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