Tag Archives: task based labor


Taking discrimination to task

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Ville Miettinen

… mean that a career is less of a linear progression from the mailroom to CEO. Advancement will be based on desire, merit and achievement – not just how many continuous hours, weeks, years you managed to look busy at your desk.

For certain careers, it won’t matter if a person is working from home, or nursing a baby, or of a particular gender or ethnicity. The only consideration will be performance of the tasks. Even mothers in roles which still require traditional office-based …

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Work could heal the mind: microtasking from a cognitive perspective

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Katri Saarikivi

… the level of cognitive processing. In this article guest writer Katri Saarikivi discusses how task based work, and in particular microtasks, offer exciting opportunities for not only the treatment of cognitive dysfunction, but also reducing lost productivity in the workplace.

Cognitive difficulties in different illnesses

Cognitive difficulties can arise in conjunction with many kinds of illness and stressors. Obvious states such as burnout, brain injury or dementia and less obvious …

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Task-work in global networks

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Esko Kilpi

… new mode of knowledge production is emerging in digitally networked firms. This approach is called task-work. Task-work as a method refers to a new economic phenomenon: people from all over the network contribute small pieces of their time and expertise, voluntarily, to common projects modularized as tasks. Knowledge workers do this based on their availability, interest and experience. People choose themselves what they do, they choose the tasks they take up and the possible colleagues they …

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How the knowledge economy will change the way we work

Posted on April 3, 2010 by Katri Saarikivi

… human assets can improve their success in two ways. They should embrace the new conception of task-based work that is independent of time and space and make use of the knowledge available on efficient learning and human information processing. This will release the content of work to find the best knowhow and cater to the specific cognitive requirements of knowledge intensive work.

Employees’ cognitive processes and self-awareness can easily be developed by using psychological …

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Crowd Labs Incorporated

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Ville Miettinen

… to organize. Compare that ( as Lauren Schmidt did at CrowdConf this year ) to crowdsourced labor: a global pool of potential subjects who’ll work for a fraction of the price, and don’t need travel expenses.

It’s a concept the research community is just beginning to get behind. Some classic thought experiments – like the prisoner’s dilemma and the Asian disease problem have already been tried out using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

One ingenious Harvard PhD candidate – …

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