Remotasks

This is a company dedicated to the systematic exploitation of people around the world. They do not indicate their payments per task, you always do the work and keep the expectation about how much they will pay you (if pay at all). Its review system uses the same taskers (cheaper) and if the review is bad you can claim, if they agree with you they will pay you cents (literally) of difference in your favor, but they leave you the bad rating. The whole process can take up to 4 months (I have proofs). There are reviews so mediocre that they put you up to -*******% and (as is my case) if you constantly complain they ban you and you have to keep the bad review and WITHOUT PAYMENT. That's the way it is, you provide the equipment, pay for electricity and internet, use your time and put in your effort. Remotasks, puts the abuse, mistreatment, exploitation and pays you pennies in return. WITH LUCK AND A LOT OF EFFORT (80 hrs/week) YOU CAN MAKE 80 CENTS PER HOUR! A very modern take on slavery, they just replaced the whip with the mouse. A round business FOR THEM!

I had a 100% rating for the project that I was working on and was banned. I contacted support, and they told me that I was banned for either multiple accounts, spamming tasks, using a VPN, misbehavior, or poor quality, when I didn't do any of those. They said that this decision was made by the admins after a "careful examination" and that this decision is irreversible and that I would not be paid at all for my work last week. I feel like they just don't want to pay you after you make a certain amount of money, as I'd made about $500 in total, including the money I wasn't paid. This company sucks, and I don't recommend working for them at all.

Edit 10/31/2023: Today, I received an email inviting me to come work for Remotasks. I logged into my account and was still banned, but now, I saw a message saying that I could appeal my ban within 14 days. Well, I emailed them to tell them that that was a new message and that I wanted to appeal, and support told me once again that my ban was irreversible because they don't have the authority to unban anyone once they're banned to keep things fair. What's not fair is that they banned me for no reason. Complete clown company.

They stop your tasking and don't give any reason or explanation whatsoever. They go back against their word. They tell you that they will allocate you to a different project and then never comply. A scam, a complete joke! They answer support questions with AI, i.e., a robot. The robot has a name and it repeats the exact same answer no matter how many times you ask. It's extremely frustrating. It's the most incompetent and totally unprofessional organization I have ever been involved with. Don't bother. Here's a more detailed review:
I was working as an AI trainer completing tasks in field of expertise, Nutrition. After just a few days (as I was SUCCESSFULLY completing my tasks, i.e., they were accepted), I was informed that I was removed from my projects because of "low quality" work, and I was "in violation of Community Guidelines." I have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. I proceeded to inquire via 'support' as to what is 'low quality' so that I could make any appropriate improvements in my tasking work. I inquired numerous times... each time I received a canned response stating that I did "low quality" work. I NEVER received any hint of a reason or explanation. Then I received a response stating that - "not to worry" - I would be allocated to a different project category, but IF I received another warning flag, I would be let go entirely. Well, the fact is that I NEVER even received an INITIAL warning in the first place! Actually, I received TWO separate emails stating that I would be reassigned. However, I soon received a response from a different rep stating that I was removed from ALL tasking, i.e., let go. Once again, NO WARNINGS, NO REASON GIVEN, AND NO EXPLANATION. This is a completely incompetent and unprofessional organization. To accept an individual as an AI trainer after completing a screening process that took around 2 hours to complete... and then hiring that individual... and then giving that individual several tasks which he successfully completed... to just boot that individual out the door without a specific reason or explanation? I would say that's pretty bush league. This company is a complete a joke and a fraud. They should be investigated.

Remotasks advertises that you can make up to $30 per hour doing tasks aimed to train their AI database. The tasks that you get assigned, however, are very long and require some research on the taskers part in order to perform the task correctly. The task you submit is then reviewed by peer-level graders and the final score determines your pay out. It's said that tasks should take about 30 minutes to perform, but a lot of the research and writing tasks require more time than this. Remotasks seems to pay you based on the amount of time they would prefer you take for the tasks assigned, not how much time you actually spend doing the task.
The grading system and feedback also is quite confusing. I've experienced reviewers completely changing my work, including the prompt and source references for my answers. This lowers your accuracy score, even though your original work isn't being graded or corrected, but changed entirely.
The pay rate makes no sense and there is no explanation as to why you are paid the way you are for the tasks you do. Some tasks will give you a payout of $2 or $3, while other tasks of the same type will pay up to $8 or $9. There is no distinguishable reason for the differences in pay, because the review grade can be the same for both payouts.
Their support and customer service is extremely slow to reply as well, I've sent an inquiry about a task and they took almost 2 months to respond. The task I was asking about was long expired before they responded, and they basically said 'we can't help you with inquiries about an expired task'.
On top of everything, Remotasks claims to have a sign-on bonus of $25, which I never saw.

Overall, Remotasks does pay weekly but the pay is not as high as they claim and the work they want from you is worth more than the compensation.

Wow, where do I even start? If I could give less stars I would. First off, good luck getting paid. It was impossible to get paid what I was owed and had to wait for an eternity. Bonuses? Lol nope! They promise bonuses for completing onboarding or hitting certain numbers but they never pay you. When you start off it's pretty good and you can make pretty decent money, I guess that's how they suck you in? Then they'll say you're performing poorly on tasks that you're actually scoring high on and move you to another project and have to start the onboarding process ALL OVER AGAIN. Then you wait.

So you then get added to a project except this project is objectively HARDER and requires MORE WORK but you are now getting PAID $10 LESS THAN THE PREVIOUS EASIER PROJECT. But wait, we're just getting started! Before you can even make your measly $12 an hour, they onboard WAAAAAAY too many people, so everyone is fighting for tasks and the queue is empty. It's been months since I've been able to work and I keep getting told that we're just waiting on data from the all mysterious "client" (?) and the admins (who god bless their sweet hearts, are totally useless and know nothing) say it will be 72 hours or that they don't have an update or blah blah blah. Months go by. Absolutely no one knows what's going on there. I swear. If you file a a help ticket you'll get a response from someone who has literally no idea what you're talking about either. They are a robot themselves or they don't speak English because the answers and replies I get back from them are completely nonsensical. They advertise consistent work, but that's a hilarious lie. I think I got to work for about two weeks consistently.

Also, the website is consistently down. So even if they were theoretically work available, you wouldn't even be able to do it cause the site has crashed. Absolute s*** show, 0/10 do not recommend. I don't know, I'm sure a lawsuit will be in their near future. Anyway don't waste your time. The work is inconsistent and boring and pays crumbs. There are much better side hustle sites out there.

They do not pay any money to workers and give lame excuses over and over. Wouldn't reccomend to anyone, complete waste of time

I signed up for Remotasks around May 2023 and got stuck in an AWFUL project so I decided to put a pause on it, especially after reading comments on their Slack page about how reviewers would often poorly rate you and some people were getting kicked off projects, sometimes for weeks at a time and only after continually contacting support would they finally get assigned back on a project. Since I didn't like the project I was assigned to, I thought it was best to put a pause on it until I was assigned to a different one (better to pause than get kicked off). Well, I logged back into Remotasks in July 2023 after getting an email for an incentive to complete a certain number of tasks in 2 days. I thought "Why not" and saw that I was assigned to a different project. After doing a couple of tasks on the new project, I was really happy because the tasks in that project were very fun. I completed more than what was requested for the incentive within the timeframe and stopped. My reviewer rated my tasks very poorly and didn't give any feedback on what I could have possibly done wrong (the tasks were short and very straightforward). I couldn't believe what I was doing so wrong for my accuracy to go from the 80s all the way down to 11% after they reviewed a couple of my tasks. After my tasks were reviewed, none of them had any feedback and I was still at 11% and kicked off the project and did not receive the incentive. It's August 2023, and I have sent 2 complaints about the inaccuracy; all I got was an unhelpful, generic response. Remotasks itself is not very reliable and the way their system works is extremely pathetic. The reviewers are often complained about and I see why after my experience. Their customer service is awful and unhelpful and the pay just isn't worth it. They won't pay the incentives or the referral bonuses and I truly feel they plummeted by accuracy so they wouldn't have to pay the incentive. Remotasks is unreliable and untrustworthy. To sum them up, I would say Remotasks=Digital Sweatshop.