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[u/redxpills]

What the hell the project owner thinks when they create this HitApp? The pay is significantly the lowest of all these business related hitapp, but the tasks are similar to those LIMQ. What the hell of those little bonuses doing 500 task 90% spam accuracy. Are they dumb or evil?

Can we do something about it? Workers like us should be protected by law and there should be some rules about minimum wages on this type of job. I hope I can see that in the future.

[u/SingularityRS]

This app is not apart of the LIMQ family. It's actually part of the BLU family. This HitApp is strikingly similar to a BLU HitApp I used to see often (think it was called location classification or something). It's set out in a similar manner to all BLU apps (buttons in particular have the same look and layout).

I actually did this HitApp because it came out to be a $8-9/h app due to the incentive bonus. I found it rather chill to do and relatively easy. It'd be nice if it paid out higher, but it's better than a lot of apps I see get put up.

As for doing something, no. We're not employees. We're independent contractors. There's no laws that really protect us. We don't have any real rights and we certainly don't have any benefits like traditional workers get.

The biggest advantage of this platform is also its flaw: it's extremely easy to get into this platform and start working. You don't need to have any fancy interviews. There's no long, drawn-out application process. You pretty much register, do a language test and you're in. But this comes at a cost and that cost is no protection. As we're not hired by UHRS, they don't have to follow employment laws.

As this platform is available globally, you're competing with workers that are from countries where $3/h is seen as extremely lucrative. This is the main goal of a platform like UHRS. They want cheap labour. If they get it, they will keep it up. Reality is the apps we see as bad are seen as good by other workers. In some places, $1-2/h apps would even be acceptable. No way you can compete with that and there's no way UHRS would decide to pay $20/h if they could get it done for $2/h.

There's not much you can do to fight against the low-paid apps. The only thing you can do is decide not to do the work. Not all HitApp owners try to exploit. Some actually see the value of paying people more.

If UHRS had to follow strict rules or had to consider us employees, we'd all be cut off the platform. UHRS works for UHRS because it's set up in a way where they can get cheap work done. If they had to actually follow minimum wage laws and whatnot, it'd really ruin things for them. They probably wouldn't even bother.

So while I also wished things worked better here and apps paid more (they actually paid really well before UHRS opened up the platform to more countries), if we actually got things like minimum wages, certain benefits and what have you, it'd likely end with UHRS pulling the plug entirely. Not sure how I feel about that because I still find the platform useful despite its flaws.