What is microwork?

Microwork is paid work which usually involves short and repetitive tasks carried out on a smartphone or computer. It could be identifying objects shown in an image, watching videos, labelling data, translating short sentences or recording one’s voice for example. It can also be charging electric scooters or taking photos of products for an app. It’s as simple as registering on a platform which acts as the middle man between workers and companies. Amazon Mechanical Turk is an example of one such platform. That sounds simple enough; what is life like as a microworker then? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions! To listen to the last episodes, you can click here: How does pollution affect my mental health? What is the soft evening concept from Tiktok? What is Hugh Jackman’s 85% rule? A podcast written and realised by Joseph Chance. In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices