Thursday, April 23, 2020

Low paying but accessible jobs in crowd work, such as tagging photos and filling out surveys, are seeing a boom on platforms like Mechanical Turk since COVID-19 (Tom Simonite/Wired)

Tom Simonite / Wired:
Low paying but accessible jobs in crowd work, such as tagging photos and filling out surveys, are seeing a boom on platforms like Mechanical Turk since COVID-19  —  People who've lost jobs and are stuck indoors are turning to crowd work—filling out online surveys and transcribing audio for less than the minimum wage.



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