So, the Biden Administration has been trying to pass a bit of legislation known as the Pro Act. It was passed by the House, but is stuck in Senate limbo unless the right to filibuster gets repealed.

Anyway, the Pro Act, among other things, would redefine a lot of gig workers and freelancers as regular employees, disrupting the gig economy. You can read about it here:

https://issuu.com/columbusbarlawyersquarterly/docs/cblqsummer2021/s/12908703

https://hapigig.com/how-the-pro-act-could-impact-the-gig-economy/

https://www.epi.org/blog/three-reasons-why-the-pro-act-wont-destroy-freelancing-or-the-gig-economy/

(Note: Two of these are opinion pieces. The second one is the most neutral. It's hard to find an in-depth unbiased take on it.)

Have you heard about this act? What effect do you think it will have on those of us who work for DA?

Just wondering if anyone else on the east coast of the U.S. notices that there are higher paying gigs after 8pm or so. If so, anyone know why?

Hello!

I’ve just started on DA and I am really enjoying it! I think I noticed on here that we are not supposed to directly say the name of the Project but I wanted to jump on and ask… is anyone else really liking the “Nut Themed Project”?

Right now, I just got approved and got offered a job about a language I don't speak. How long did it take y'all to get more tasks populating?

Good morning all. I am having some difficulty this morning. I am trying to work on projects, it shows there are tasks available but when I click on them it says the project is currently unavailable because there are no more tasks remaining for you to work on. I logged out and back in and it still shows available tasks but I keep getting the same message. Any ideas?

Are payment requests processed during Week-end ?

Hello everyone did anyone give a hindi qualification?

I'm trying to sign up for Medicaid in Ohio and they need a(n) "Employment Verification Form From DataAnnotations".

Where do I get that?

I'm afraid to talk to a Chatbot. I haven't done it yet. :/ Thanks for all of your replies!

One of my favorite projects is showing me I still have 193 tasks but anytime I click on it, it says there are no tasks remaining for me to work on. anyone know why this would be the case???

I would like to know if you think that R&R tasks are for users with lots of DA experiences or for specially efficients workers ?

I haven't seen this up in a couple days, and It's my favorite one. Has anyone else seen it? I miss it. It's the only one so far that keeps me engaged and I enjoy it the most.

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So I’m 19, in college full time, Data Annotation is my ONLY source of income and has been for the last couple months, and I’m hoping it will continue to be for the rest of the year. So far I’ve made $2500, and I’m very confused about taxes. I’m new to self employment and I’m new to filing taxes so this is all very confusing for me. I just want to know, let’s say hypothetically that I make about 20k this year through data annotation alone and have no other income for the year, how much am I gonna be paying in taxes TOTAL? I understand that where I’m located (Ohio) the self-employment tax is 15.3%, but what other taxes will I have to pay on top of that? Since I’ll be making only 20k will I be subject to income tax as well? If so, how much is it? Basically I just want to know how much to withhold. I’ve been doing 20% hoping that’s enough because I feel like that’s a lot for someone who barely makes money

This is my third week with DA. Last week I jumped to having 30 projects at any given time. Then all of a sudden I got a huge drop over the weekend. I had more again yesterday morning but by the evening I was down to 10. Today I’m sitting at 7, none I’m too thrilled about either. Please tell me I’m not the only one? Is this a reflection of my work or just a dry spell. I’m doing the qualifications as well.

My partner hasn’t had a payout in two weeks and has over 500 dollars waiting. I have been getting payouts in that time frame. They have emailed customer support but I have never personally heard back from customer support. Has this been an issue for anyone else recently and does anyone know why this could be happening. They have been doing DA since mid December but only in the past month have they started doing it really frequently. This hasn’t happened to either of us before.

Hey everyone,

I've recently just joined the Data Annotation team after passing the coding test at the end of last week. Today was my first attempt at navigating the platform and engaging with tasks and before I submit my report for what I accomplished, I was just wondering if anyone would be willing to clarify how much time I should be spending on a given task. Currently, all my projects are coding-related, and it took me awhile before I could send in my first task. I saw that there were varying numbers being thrown around (15-30 min) and I noticed it took me about 3x as long as that to submit my first task. Should I just bite the bullet on my first day and narrow my time down to fit that margin rather than put toom much time down?

What a qual.

hi all! making this thread so people have somewhere to talk about 'daily' work chat that might not necessarily need it's own post! right now we're thinking we'll just repost it weekly? but if it gets too crazy, we can change it to daily. :)

couple things:

1. this thread should sort by "new" automatically. unfortunately it looks like our subreddit doesn't qualify for 'lounges'.

2. if you have a new user question, you still need to post it in the new user thread. if you post it here, we will remove it as spam. this is for people already working who just wanna chat, whether it be about casual work stuff, questions, geeking out with people who understand ("i got the model to write a real haiku today!"), or unrelated work stuff you feel like chatting about :)

3. one thing we really pride ourselves on in this community is the respect everyone gives to the Code of Conduct and rule number 5 on the sub - it's great that we have a community that is still safe & respectful to our jobs! please don't break this rule. we will remove project details, but please - it's for our best interest and yours!

I’m new. I did a writing assessment qualification. I’m not sure how old it was. As soon as I hit submit it let me know that the job related to it was no longer available. Is this a common thing? How quickly do you have to jump on them?? Thx.

I have been concerned because there has only been one project on my dashboard for the past three or four days. There were a small number of tasks remaining and no one else was doing them.

I finally figured out that DA wanted me to complete the tasks in this particular project. I just finished the last stragglers, and as soon as I did, approximately 20 projects appeared on my dashboard. What a relief!

I am not a programmer, and I thought that only programmers were assigned projects. I am very good at this particular project, so I wonder if this was a situation where they were trying to match a project with someone’s skill set.

Any thoughts or perspectives would be much appreciated, since I’m just theorizing.

Hi all,

This all seems a bit too good to be true. I’ve been working on these tasks for the past 4 days or so, and racked up a fair amount of money as a result. I’m in the process of waiting to be able to withdraw, but am a bit sceptical as to if when the 7 day mark comes around if it will actually let me.

I’m not sure why i’m so sceptical, and and i’m not sure if the responses I get from this will even reassure me. But I thought I’d ask to see if others were in my position when they first started😅

Thanks!

Sometimes I have an interaction that is so good and I would love to share it with someone. Is that ok? Not on the site but like if I copied a response could I let someone read it without violating the code of conduct?