Hello, I'm Manuela Saragossa. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

Coming up, imagine being able to recruit labour from anywhere in the world, ignoring all borders, walls and distances.

It's happening right now, and they're calling it the human cloud.

We have what's essentially becoming a planetary scale labor market. You're getting

people from different countries compete with one another, and a key way in which people compete

with one another is through price. Things like minimum wages don't apply. But not everyone takes such

a dystopian view. You don't have to try to convince anyone that they need the work. They already

know that they have a problem that someone else can solve,

and they're just looking for someone to do that.

That's coming up here in Business Daily from the BBC.

When we talk about the gig economy,

companies like Uber or Task Rabbit probably spring to mind,

apps and online platforms through which workers find

physical work like driving or household tasks. But there's another kind of gig in town too,

and it involves work like data entry, copywriting or coding, essentially service jobs, which

can be done remotely anywhere in the world and with just an internet connection.

Tens of millions of people globally are now estimated to earn their living this way.

Some are even calling it the human cloud.

So who are the people that make up the human cloud and how exactly does it work?

Hello. Oh, hi, is that Ray? Yes. Hi, it's Edwin here at the BBC. How are you doing? and how exactly does it work? Hello?

Oh, hi, is that Ray?

Yes.

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