I just read this article and thought it applies to mystery shopping as well. No wonder there are MS companies that believe people will work only for food at the fast food nearby. [www.theatlantic.com]
"The Internet Is Enabling a New Kind of Poorly Paid Hell" from the Atlantic.
"This low-paid work arrives via sites like CrowdFlower, Clickworker, Toluna, and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, to name a few. Largely unregulated, these sites allow businesses and individuals to post short tasks and pay workers—in cash or, sometimes, gift cards—to complete them. A recent Mechanical Turk listing, for example, offered workers 80 cents to read a restaurant review and then answer a survey about their impressions of it; the time limit was 45 minutes. Another, which asked workers to fill out a 15-minute psychological questionnaire about what motivates people to do certain tasks, offered $1, but allowed that the job could take three hours."
On the other side, I can see the need of people without other options, or inability to leave the house, to get these jobs to supplement their income so may be this article introduces new paying sources for others.
"The Internet Is Enabling a New Kind of Poorly Paid Hell" from the Atlantic.
"This low-paid work arrives via sites like CrowdFlower, Clickworker, Toluna, and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, to name a few. Largely unregulated, these sites allow businesses and individuals to post short tasks and pay workers—in cash or, sometimes, gift cards—to complete them. A recent Mechanical Turk listing, for example, offered workers 80 cents to read a restaurant review and then answer a survey about their impressions of it; the time limit was 45 minutes. Another, which asked workers to fill out a 15-minute psychological questionnaire about what motivates people to do certain tasks, offered $1, but allowed that the job could take three hours."
On the other side, I can see the need of people without other options, or inability to leave the house, to get these jobs to supplement their income so may be this article introduces new paying sources for others.
