Overview

• In hospitality and urban transport more than 90,000 workers operate as independent contractors and another 110,000 as informal employees on platform apps, while over 160,000 digital vendors serve the commerce sector.
• Registered private employment has remained flat since mid-2024 and unemployment climbed to 7.9% in Q1 2025, the highest rate since 2021.
• Platforms classify their workforce as colaboradores under monotributo, a status that typically excludes labor rights, social benefits and formal protections.
• Experts warn that the proposed Ley Bases could strengthen the colaborador classification and further encourage informal contracting and outsourcing.
• Persisting gaps in labor surveys, Indec data and monotributo records mask the true scale of platform work, complicating efforts to regulate and protect gig workers.