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Crowdsourcing work: Labour on demand or digital sweatshop?

article Distributed Knowledge, Open Innovation, Tools
Summary This article presents the labor-on-demand model, a crowdsourced workforce.
Description In online community based “labor on demand” models, employees are a crowdsourced workforce - who work from home, when needed, on specific projects. The aim is to get work done using a mass of people.
"It doesn't make sense to build a box around people, put in internet and plumbing and everything else, make them drive to work and have managers for them," Lukas Biewald says. "I think that companies like ours are really set to disrupt the whole outsourcing industry."

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