A Cross-Country Comparison of Crowdworker Motivations

11/08/2017
by   Lisa Posch, et al.
0

Crowd employment is a new form of short term employment that has been rapidly becoming a source of income for a vast number of people around the globe. It differs considerably from more traditional forms of work, yet similar ethical and optimization issues arise. One key to tackle such challenges is to understand what motivates the international crowd workforce. In this work, we study the motivation of workers involved in one particularly prevalent type of crowd employment: micro-tasks. We report on the results of applying the Multidimensional Crowdworker Motivation Scale (MCMS) in ten countries, which unveil significant international differences.

READ FULL TEXT

page 1

page 2

page 3

page 4

research
12/14/2018

Characterizing the Global Crowd Workforce: A Cross-Country Comparison of Crowdworker Demographics

Micro-task crowdsourcing is an international phenomenon that has emerged...
research
12/30/2020

The Challenges of Crowd Workers in Rural and Urban America

Crowd work has the potential of helping the financial recovery of region...
research
02/13/2019

Crowd Work on a CV? Understanding How AMT Fits into Turkers' Career Goals and Professional Profiles

In 2013, scholars laid out a framework for a sustainable, ethical future...
research
09/11/2020

Can Microtask Programming Work in Industry?

A critical issue in software development projects in IT service companie...
research
11/02/2021

International Comparative Studies on the Software Testing Profession

This work attempts to fill a gap by exploring the human dimension in par...
research
04/26/2022

Observations From an Online Security Competition and Its Implications on Crowdsourced Security

The crowd sourced security industry, particularly bug bounty programs, h...

Please sign up or login with your details

Forgot password? Click here to reset