How We Found Ourselves Inside a Scam Those comments we noticed on our article were oddly flat. “Very helpful,” read one. “The ...

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A crowdsourcing startup, Microtask, is ripping crowdsourced labor into even smaller pieces. Microtask’s automated platform splits dull, repetitive tasks into tiny pieces and distributes them over the ...

Microtask platforms recruit humans to do the rating, tagging, review-writing, and poll-taking work that can’t quite be automated with an algorithm yet. In the US, the most common such platform is ...

At first glance, Microsoft's proposal to fill employees' spare time with small tasks seems like a boon for workplace productivity. Don't be fooled, Brien warns. I recently read a fascinating article ...

DO one assigned task on your computer. It shouldn’t take you more than two seconds. Repeat 14,399 times. Congratulations! Your eight-hour work day is complete. No such workplace yet exists, but with ...

Information Analytics Di Gangi, Paul M.; Howard, Jack L.; McAllister, Charn P.; Thatcher, Jason Bennett. The Influence of Political Skill and Community Capabilities on Microtask Worker Hourly Wage: A ...