Abstract:The application of algorithm technology provides convenience for the labor process management in platform enterprises, but it also highlights the risks of labor rights infringement, particularly among platform practitioners such as contracted anchors. In the digital platform economy era, algorithmic management deprives platform practitioners of control over the labor process, exacerbating the erosion of their structural bargaining power. The extreme fragmentation of working time caused by algorithmic management inevitably leads to overwork among platform practitioners. Live streaming platforms manipulate time and popularity through the popularity-based piece rate salary system, which results in intensifi ed regulation of contracted anchors and immersion overwork. The lack of unifi ed criteria for determining the labor status of contracted anchors in relation to live streaming platforms makes it diffi cult to clarify their legal status. Moreover, the organizational structure and profi t model of live streaming platforms exclude the application of labor law to the legal relationship in network live streaming. Therefore, it is necessary to reexamine and improve the principle of tilted protection established by labor law in China, establish guidelines for working time in network live streaming, and strengthen the accountability of live streaming platforms to provide new legal governance solutions for addressing the issue of overwork among contracted anchors.