About 600,000 workers participate in the online gig economy annually and the number is growing rapidly. Crowdsourcing facilitates new ways of working, and its remote and asynchronous work style could enable people with disabilities and stay-at-home parents to work. On the other hand, many are concerned that workers in crowdsourcing markets are treated unfairly with low wages. In this podcast, Asst Prof of Information Systems Kotaro Hara discusses his research on why crowdsourcing platforms for work, which includes Amazon Mechanical Turk, contribute to low wages for workers in the gig economy, and what could potentially be done to improve the efficacy of these platforms.