Scenario 1: Purpose-driven Conglomerates
Microwork organizations offer Skills Packs training upgrades. Meanwhile, drone water-flights attack forest fires across the globe.
Persona 1: Robin Esposito
Robin is a microworker with one of “the good guys”. The scenario represents a plausible future where microwork provides opportunities for advancement.
Scenario 2: Profitably Public
Rising tensions feed a democratic mandate for big change. Government fosters a conscientious capitalism that distributes innovation’s benefits more broadly.
Persona 2: Alyx Lee
Thanks to data royalties and a solid bioreactor gig, Alyx can live well and set something aside for the next flu or market shock.
Scenario 3: The Social Impact Franchise
Global corporations set the agenda. With little oversight, microwork enters industries such as education, health, and social services.
Persona 3: Vasil Ramadani
Vasil is a social entrepreneur who is happy about the impact of his work and hopeful for a better world.
Scenario 4: Corporate Cooperativism
In this scenario, microwork economies and winner-take-all profit motives are contentious.
Persona 4: Dan Yoon
Dan wanted to do well enough to keep his job. Although he also wanted to minimize bad effects on people.
Phase 3: What’s driving microwork
The research team identified what’s driving microwork by analyzing the signals and developing a set of 12 trends. Next, we identified the six change drivers.
TWIG’s microwork reading list
Getting apples-to-apples data about worker demographics is challenging. Here are the team’s top 12 resources.
Publications
2020
Microtasking Project
2019-2020
Local Labour Market Plan
2019
Pathways to Mobility
2019
TWIG Warehousing and Distribution
2019
Making immigration work for all of Ontario
2019
Local Labour Market Plan 2018-2019
2019
Retail Trade: A sector in transition
2018
Food and Beverage Processing Sector
2018
Stemming the Gray Tide
2018
Labour Force Landscape
2017
lLongitudinal study of the long-term unemployed
2017
Food and Beverage Manufacturing Industry
2016
Toronto's Employment and Training Program
2015
Toronto's Labour Market
2015
Constructing Toronto
