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. Tweets: @sesmith and @scottthurm Tweets: S.E. Smith / @sesmith : The digital piecework economy is surging back as desperate people take jobs for pennies to stay afload. https://www.wired.com/... Scott Thurm / @scottthurm : You lost your job, but you can still tell a car from a cat. Join Mechanical Turk! You'll have lots of company https://www.wired.com/... via @tsimonite