Salmah binti Latip (2019579871)

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The opportunities and challenges of crowd workers will be related with ethical issues,
explain with example.

One of the opportunities crowd workers are they can be improving the productivity.
Employee productivity, also known as productivity in the workplace or workplace
productivity, is the measure of an individual employee’s output. For example, a company that
produces artistic bottles will want to know how many artistic bottles one employee can
manufacture in a specific period of time – this number is the individual employee’s output. As
such, employee productivity shouldn’t be confused with labour productivity or workforce
productivity, which is the overall economic output of a country or company per labour hour.
There other opportunities are can improving social mobility. In a fast-changing globalised
and technology-driven world, income gaps may widen among the various sectors of society.
People may fall through the gaps, and the poor, needy and disadvantaged among us will
have a harder time surviving, let along catching up. The Government can do more and do
better in managing social spending and improving social mobility. For example, we can
mobilise professionals to help ordinary persons in the streets to improve their financial
literacy skills.

One of the challenges of crowd workers that related with ethical issues are cognitive
piecework. Crowd workers tend to receive extremely low pay for their cognitive piecework.
They usually earn no benefits and enjoy no job security, and in fact the vendors may seek to
prevent them from doing so. Crowd laborers do not enjoy true legal protection on the job,
and the cyberspace in which they work remains essentially unregulated for employment and
labour law purposes. In addition to these fundamental drawbacks, crowd workers also
encounter problems with information asymmetry, deception, and privacy. Besides that, about
contest-based crowd work. As already mentioned above, contest-based crowdsourcing is
particularly endemic in the field of graphic design. The most problematic issue here, in
addition to the forbiddingly low hourly income rates, is the systemic waste of work and the
uncertainty for those who contribute their work if they will ever get paid.