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Fairwork Cloudwork Ratings 2025
Fairwork (Oxford Internet Institute and WZB Berlin Social Science Center) · Published 2025 (upload path dated May 2025)
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Research ratings of 16 online labour platforms against five fair-work principles; fieldwork February 2024 to January 2025. The final part of the report was not read.
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Independent ratings of 16 online labour platforms in 2024–25 found evidence that workers earn at least the local minimum wage on only four, and concluded that the platforms remain far from safeguarding basic fair-work standards; the best scored 8 out of 10.
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Data work is part of AI infrastructure: the pay, protection and voice of the people who label and moderate shape both who bears AI’s costs and the quality of the systems built on their work.
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