Por qué cada vez más jóvenes latinos caen en estafas laborales

In this episode of How It Affects You, we uncover the dark side of outsourcing and the platform economy in Latin America. The BPO industry moves $18 billion a year and employs three million people, mostly young. But behind the acceptable salary lies a model of extreme control: metrics that measure every second, surveillance even of signs of tiredness, and emotional pressure documented by various studies. We also tell you how the gig economy of digital work operates: the hustle of labeling data for Mighty AI, Scale AI, Remotasks, and other platforms that train artificial intelligence, paying a median of $2.57 per hour, according to the ILO. 00:00 Introduction 01:07 The new “office of the world” 4:33 Legal precarity and exploitation 13:08 The gray area: training AI without a contract 17:39 And now, fraud 20:03 Solutions 24:45 Conclusion