Picoworkers

Picoworkers

Picoworkers is an online marketplace that connects Freelancers around the world with business owners. Businesses who need other people to help them to support their work come to Picoworkers. Here they can hire workers easily and quick .

Picoworkers is a microworking platform where you can perform small online tasks for small payments. It’s a similar platform to Clickworker and Amazon Mechanical Turk.

Picoworkers review

Picoworkers is a two way platform. Once you set up an account, you can both perform small tasks for money, or pay people to do micro-tasks for you.

For example, if you were keen to get more people to follow your social media accounts, or to join the mailing list for your blog, you could pay them to do so.

It’s the nature of some of these tasks that make me a little uncomfortable about recommending Picoworkers – so read on to find out more.

Is Picoworkers a Scam?

Picoworkers isn’t a scam. It’s easy to find Picoworker payment proofs from people who have earned money from the platform. The company has an “About” page with full address details and even a phone number.

Most of the tasks on the platform only earn you a small amount of money. Admittedly, this is the nature of micro-working. However, additionally, as explained later in the review, some of the tasks seem morally questionable.

Review Signing Up

Signing up to Picoworkers in really easy. There’s a fairly short sign-up form, asking for things like your name, country, and desired login credentials. You also have to provide a brief summary of your skills to form your profile.

Sign up form

It’s all very straightforward, and relatively informal, allowing you to begin work very quickly. However, there is more formality when it comes to actually cashing out. You have to provide your ID and go through a verification process before you can take any money out of the platform.

Performing Tasks

Once you’ve verified your email address and logged in, you’ll see a wide range of tasks you can complete on Picoworkers.

You’re restricted to “small jobs” on the platform until you complete some successfully, which builds up a success rate score. Once this rises high enough, you can get involved in (slightly) better paying larger and “ongoing” jobs.

My initial observations were positive. There were many “small jobs” there for the taking at the point of my Picoworkers review, and they all looked very simple – things like “Visit website and click once,” and “Visit Facebook and Visit website.”

While these tasks only pay pennies each, they also only take seconds. This, in essence, is what a lot of micro-working is like.

Pay people a tiny fee to click the ads

Get paid MORE than that by the advertising network for those clicks

Pocket the difference.

I have ads on my own sites, and know that it’s very much against the terms of service to click those ads myself, or to in any way entice or encourage people to click them unless they want to.

PAYING people to click them is definitely off limits, and would likely see the site owners banned from Google Adsense, or whichever other networks they are using. It seems clear plenty of them are willing to take that risk.

Once I started delving deeper, I found that a LOT of the jobs on Picoworker involve visiting sites and clicking adverts.Picoworkers Job Example

Now there are two things I should make clear:

I’m not saying that Picoworkers as a platform is doing anything wrong, but it’s clear to me that plenty of the service’s users are paying people to take part in (at best) questionable activities. The same think happens at RapidWorkers.

While I personally wouldn’t want to earn money for doing “work” involving things like this, I do realise that some people have a less strict moral code than I do.

Most of the “sign up for this site” jobs seem a bit questionable too. There are plenty of sites that pay out a few bucks when you refer a signup to them. All people need to do is pay a “Picoworker” 50 cents to do it and pocket the difference.

Getting Paid by Picoworkers

You can request a cashout from Picoworkers once you have a balance of $5, plus enough to cover the processing fee. These fees vary depending on the cashout method you choose. There are various options, including PayPal payments and Amazon gift cards, and a handful of different cryptocurrency options.

As mentioned already, you need to provide identification to request your first payout.

Picoworkers withdrawal fees

Of course the big question is whether you will actually get paid! Before I started on my Picoworkers review, I looked at other online reports and did see plenty of payment proofs. However, there are also some comments on various Picoworkers reviews talking about delays and problems with payments.

Picoworkers User Interface

The user interface is functional, but quite old-fashioned and cluttered. In fairness, there’s a lot of functionality squeezed in, but it’s not the most pleasurable site to use, and it’s easy to get lost. The site doesn’t appear to be mobile-friendly, and I couldn’t find any Picoworkers app either.

Picoworkers Points

You can also build up “Picoworkers points” for doing anything from completing tasks to uploading your ID and verifying your phone number. I’m unclear what the points and levels really achieve, and alongside various success rate percentages, it all makes for a lot of rather confusing metrics.

Picoworkers referrals

Like many home working platforms and survey websites, Picoworkers operates a referral scheme. It pays you 5% of anything your referrals deposit (to have tasks done for them), and 5% of the value of tasks they do “in your downline.”

Given that the amounts of money involved are typically tiny and that I’ve probably put you off signing up by now, I won’t be planning any holidays as a result of earning commission. However, my own link is here if you still want to sign up, despite everything I’ve said!

Conclusion

I have to conclude my Picoworkers review by saying this isn’t – for me – a great home working opportunity.

Picoworkers Pros and Cons

The Good

Easy to sign up.

Low payout threshold.

Plenty of work.

Could be a useful platform if you want people to do small tasks for you.

Find Picoworkers here.