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 ...

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 ...

Concerns over the economic realities of gig workers have largely focused on more public-facing firms like Uber, Lyft, Taskrabbit, and Instacart. A study released yesterday by the International Labour ...

VILNIUS, Lithuania, Sept. 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Together, Honeygain, the leading application allowing users to generate passive income by sharing their Internet connection, and JumpTask, a ...

Like many other workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform, Riley does the grueling and repetitive work of labeling images used to train artificial intelligence systems. Last year, he was one of the ...

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 ...

An Internal Revenue Service memo written in late June and published on August 28 states that cryptocurrency earned from microtasks conducted on crowdsourcing platforms is considered taxable income.

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 Mixed Methods Study of ...