Dmytro Kozak is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology. His research interests lie in the political economy of digital platforms, zooming in on market transformation, reterritorialisation of labour, and workplace restructuring. Dmytro is currently conducting his fieldwork in the UK, inquiring whether a platform-led expansion of dark kitchens and stores suggests a mutation of the platform’s foundational principle along the lines of vertical integration. Through ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, he questions how previously asset-light platforms expand into property ownership, and how this shift reconfigures labour regimes, managerial control, infrastructural setup and the organisation of work in platform-run workplaces. By connecting the macro-level dynamics of market change with the micro-level realities of everyday labour processes, he aims to trace ethnographically how platform logic touches down upon the workplace and redraws work relations.