Abstract
The advancement of cloud computing technology has reduced the geographical and temporal=restriction on communication, and it has become typical to work in globally distributed environment. For example, crowdsourcing that matches workers and businesses globally through ICT gives chances for workers to get a variety of jobs from all over the world. However, since the crowdsourcing labor market is worldwide and there are more workers than job orders in this market, wage rates tend to be much lower in this market than those of the traditional market. In particular, in the micro-task market with many workers from developing countries, the low cost labor market has been formed. In Japan, the crowdsourcing market is in the process of forming, and very few studies have been conducted for the micro-task market in Japan. In this paper, a survey of workers in the Japanese micro-task market was conducted, and the distribution of worker's residential area and the relationships among worker's residential area, the influence of compensation for living, work time, and worker's motivation were tested. Findings of this study were discussed at the end.
