Striving to earn more: A survey of work strategies and tool use among crowd workers

• Main Authors: KAPLAN, Toni, SAITO, Susumu, HARA, Kotaro, BIGHAM, Jeffrey P.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Wages; Amazon Mechanical Turk; automation; survey; Benefits and Compensation; Databases and Information Systems; Technology and Innovation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4333; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5336/viewcontent/17920_77818_1_PB.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Earning money is a primary motivation for workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk, but earning a good wage is difficult because work that pays well is not easily identified and can be time-consuming to find. We explored the strategies that both low- and high-earning workers use to find and complete tasks via...