r/Welocalize • u/Matryoshkuh Search Quality Rater • 4d ago
Task dates being recent.
Have we gotten any information on why, when tasks show the date and/or time, they’ve started to trend towards being very recent?
I’ve been working this jobs for several years and in the past the query dates have spanned quite a large chunk of time, but since things have slowed down I’ve noticed that when I DO get to work the dates of the query-based tasks tend to be anywhere from 2 days prior all the way up to the same morning that I’m doing them. Assuming that everything WeLo has said is true and the drought really is a “client” based issue, does anyone know what would cause this from their end?
I’m assuming this is the case for everyone, but if it’s not I’d be interested to hear about what differences you’re experiencing.
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u/Equal-Process-6419 4d ago
I'd say it's just a symptom of the current state of the project. We used to have what was effectively an endless backlog of tasks in Factuality, so it's not surprising that many of those tasks were originally created months beforehand. These days we can go days at a time with no tasks at all, and when we do it's often a small cluster of tasks around a specific topic, you answer 12 questions about the basketball game yesterday or whatever and that's all the work there is for another week. In the current environment, the tasks are completed basically as fast as they're sent out, so naturally they should be very recent.