Break It Down: A Comparison of Macro- and Microtasks

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Examining Crowd Work and Gig Work Through the Historical Lens of Piecework (2017, background): “This opportunity has spurred an entire body of work investigating the effects of ordering, pacing, interruptions, and other factors accelerating scientific management that would have been all but impossible as few as 20 years ago [37, 24, 32, 31, 85].”
Digital labour platforms and the future of work (2018, background): “…Are THe riSKS ANd oPPorTuNiTieS For CrowdworKerS? tasks” (defined as those that take more time and typically involve a higher skill set when compared with “microtasks”), these tasks have the potential of being broken down into smaller microtasks (see Cheng et al., 2015), which leads to deskilling.”
Chain Reactions: The Impact of Order on Microtask Chains (2016, background): “INTRODUCTION Microtasks are small units of work that contribute progress towards a larger goal [11].”
Productivity Decomposed: Getting Big Things Done with Little Microtasks (2016, background): “Breaking a large task down into a series of smaller, microtasks with scoped context also leads to higher quality work, makes the task easier, and supports recovery from interruption [6].”