MTurk
The full name of the Amazon platform MTurk.
What is Amazon Mechanical Turk?
The full name of Microsoft's UHRS.
What is Universal Human Relevance System?
The day of the week that Leadgenius employees get paid
What is Tuesday
The main ghostwork platform for video captioning and translations
What is Amara
The dozens of tasks available for pay on MTurk
What are HITs/Human Intelligence Tasks?
The third parties that supply ghost work to companies' internal ghost work platforms.
The LeadGenius system that penalizes for incomplete or incorrect work.
What is the strike system?
______ a task is a right that ghostworkers have on Amara that differs this platform from other ghostwork platforms
What is rejecting a task?
The proportion of a worker's "reward" that Amazon keeps as an MTurk platform fee.
What is 20%?
The groups allowed to submit work requests in UHRS.
What are Microsoft employees and active partners?
The expected time devoted to LeadGenius by one of their workers.
What is between 20 and 40 hours?
Examples of MTurk's worker "qualifications".
What are age, gender, or location?
Some of the reasons offered by UHRS workers as to why they take the jobs.
The primary difference between LeadGenius and other platforms' hiring practices.
What is a long series of interviews of prospective workers by senior workers?
The proportion of MTurk workers that earned over $7.25 an hour.
What is 4%?
The sorts of tasks available to UHRS ghost workers.
What are translation, market surveys, commercial content moderation, or quality checking?
How cheaply a business can get work of a comparable quality from workers where lower wages are standard.
What is labor arbitrage?