WorkGenius

Svantaggi

Too many, but I try to list all.

- extremely low rates, actually to the point of being illegal. You are lucky if you make a minimum hourly wage for your work. Generally, the rates seems to hoover around 5-10 euros per hour. The jobs need proper skills (eg. copywriting with proper SEO), and the client is often very picky about a professional outcome. But for this payment expecting highest quality of work is laughable. They will tell you this job needs one hour to complete (and the rate will be let's say 10-15 euros) but you will soon realise it takes 2 or 3 hours. Plus all the admin like uploading take extra 10-15 mins. You are also never told how long it takes to complete the job, you are only given the rate and the scope of the job. You need to work it out yourself, and there is no benchmark to tell the client ok I worked for 5 hours instead of 1 hour, cause the job actually requires more work and you can't cancel the job anymore.

- no point of communication. Who is your client - you don't know. Who to contact if there's an error in the brief/task - there's no button to contact ANYONE (and let's say despite the error you finish the job, and then they discover the error…you don't get paid cause you didn't fulfil the brief). You have any doubt that appears as you do the work? No one to contact and count on your luck that the client won't reject the work and you won't get paid.

- ratings. Clients rate you, sometimes very badly without explanation and often because they were not clear enough in their brief, but as mentioned above there is no one to contact…. also, again, expecting work done to highest quality by offering wages below the minimum… is a joke. If the client went to a freelancer that provides the quality they expect they would pay min 30 euros per hour (and that's the minimum).

- Bad practice with accepting tasks: once you click on the job and accept it you need to finish it in the given time - if you cancel they give you a zero rating which affects all your future jobs. Which is fair if you were informed how much time the job takes.. Or if you had a point of contact to ask for extension in case of any issues. Or if you could contact someone to clarify your doubts. Or if briefs were written clearly. But you're on your own and tough luck if you slip through no fault of your own - you will get a bad rating, you won't get more jobs, or you won't get paid as the job result will be rejected.

- briefs are bad. There is no clarity, no point of communication but if you misunderstand one point it's your fault and the client may choose not to pay you

- arbitrary time allocated for jobs (meaning sometimes you need to complete a task in 2 hours sometimes 24), but you are not told how long it takes.