The Guardian view on microworking: younger, educated workers left powerless | Editorial

Pay rates of £4 an hour should be no surprise when working conditions are overseen by extractive technologies

Microwork – short digital tasks assigned to workers, who are paid piece wages via online platforms – is now firmly part of UK employment. Almost one in eight workers in the UK “won” the right to perform digital tasks remotely in 2021 by bidding for “jobs” on the web. The TUC says that the proportion of the working population being paid for …

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