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The future of microwork

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What happens when we algorithmically break complex productivity tasks down into microtasks? At Microsoft Research, the author and her team are accelerating a shift toward microproductivity to make it easy for people to get big things done one small step at a time.

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          cover image XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students
          XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students  Volume 23, Issue 2
          The Future of Work
          Winter 2016
          64 pages
          ISSN:1528-4972
          EISSN:1528-4980
          DOI:10.1145/3026779
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