Digital Labor, taking up flexible but small‐scale employment arrangements on online intermediary platforms, with few constraints on how much, when, and where work is performed, are becoming the new work reality for many individuals. Scholars have argued that this type of work is inherently demeaning. We seek to explore the worker’s perspective and how their long‐term perspective aligns or misaligns with their actual work arrangement. We draw on career construction theory and hypothesize a job–career congruence model suggesting that when workers’ cognitive presentations of their microwork as jobs or careers are incongruent, they are less likely to experience their work as meaningful. The results from a two‐stage field study of 803 workers from two microworking platforms support the negative effect of an incongruent job–career schema on workers’ experience of meaningful work. Additionally, results demonstrate that even workers who are proactive in nature, seem unable to excel in these fluid work settings when their job‐career schema are not aligned.

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数字劳工的积极性和从事有意义工作的冒险：富有成果还是没有成果？

数字劳工在在线中介平台上采用灵活但小规模的就业安排，对工作量，时间和地点的限制很少，这已成为许多人的新工作现实。学者们争辩说，这种工作本质上是贬低的。我们试图探索工人的观点，以及他们的长期观点如何与他们的实际工作安排保持一致或不一致。我们借鉴职业建设理论，并假设了一种职业与职业的一致性模型，该模型表明，当工人对微观工作作为工作或职业的认知表现不一致时，他们不太可能体验到有意义的工作。对来自两个微型加工平台的803名工人进行的为期两阶段的实地研究结果，证明了不统一的工作生涯模式对工人有意义的工作经验的负面影响。此外，结果表明，即使工作性质积极的工人，如果他们的工作生涯模式不一致，似乎也无法在这些不稳定的工作环境中脱颖而出。