Amazon will take start taking a bigger cut of payouts on Mechanical Turk, its digital crowdwork platform — a move that might drive out both the workers and the people who pay them.
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Amazon is putting the 'ow' in crowd work with a change, announced on Monday, to its Mechanical Turk platform that has both workers and requesters — the people who post gigs — upset. Starting July 21, the company will double the commission it takes per digital gig (called Human Intelligence Tasks or HITs) from 10% to 20%, charging an additional 20% on top of that for larger-batch HITs that include 10 or more assignments.
Mechanical Turk is a site, run by Amazon, on which people can post digital, often rote tasks — such as transcription or low-level data entry — they need done, and have distributed workers almost anywhere do them for a small fee. According to Amazon, there are currently more than 500,000 workers registered with Mechanical Turk.
In an email statement, Amazon said the shift in pricing structure "will help allow Amazon to continue growing the Amazon Mechanical Turk marketplace."
But the requesters who rely on mTurk to get work done, and the workers who rely on those requesters for money, don't find the change to be quite as innovative as Amazon claims.
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