The umbrella companies: a mean to regulate uberization for intellectual services?
Through the example of « portage salarial », this article explores the links between employment status and competences at the era of digital capitalism. This form of employment, that allows independent workers to get employee status by signing an employment contract with this third-party employer, feeds the redefinition of employer, employee and client roles. Based on interviews with those who use those companies and portage salarial companies’directors, and a press review, we will explore the consequences of uberization on a population that is rarely taken into account when dealing with this theme: the intellectual professionals. We will then ask how a new kind of platform, presenting themselves as breaking with other platforms, contribute to the pluralisation of workers.