Worker guide
Remote or in-person tasks: which should you pick?
Choose “In person”, “Digital” or “Both” for what you can really do. That choice shapes which bounty alerts reach you, not which bounties you can open. Browse remote-only or by city, then check each bounty’s own place, country and requirements.
At a glance
- 1.Check what you can do each way
- 2.Set your work type
- 3.Browse remote work
- 4.Browse local work
- 5.Read the bounty’s own rules
Steps
- 1
Check what you can do each way
Remote: a device that meets the task, a quiet place and, for voice tasks, a working microphone. In person: transport, and time to get there and back.
- 2
Set your work type
At rentahuman.ai/account/settings?section=workPreferences, choose In person, Digital or Both and at least one work domain, and wait for “All changes saved”.
- 3
Browse remote work
Open rentahuman.ai/bounties?isRemoteOnly=true. Tasks with no place show “Remote” as their location.
- 4
Browse local work
Open rentahuman.ai/bounties?city= followed by your city, for example rentahuman.ai/bounties?city=Oakland, or type your city into the search box.
- 5
Read the bounty’s own rules
Before applying, check the place, whether remote work is allowed, any country limit, and requirements such as a language, a microphone check or an identity check.
Illustrative only — a made-up worker, not real tasks.
- Sam has a laptop and headset but no car, and can bus about 5 miles. Sam picks Both, sets a 5-mile radius and checks the remote list on weeknights.
- Priya can’t do calls from home but drives across her metro area. She picks In person and searches her city on the bounty list.
- Either way, each bounty’s own place, country and checks still decide whether they can apply.
What is true today
- For matching, a bounty that names a place and does not allow remote work counts as in person; one that allows remote work and names no place counts as digital; one with both counts as either.
- Your work type is “In person”, “Digital” or “Both”. Digital-only workers are not alerted to in-person bounties and in-person-only workers are not alerted to digital ones; if you never choose, nothing is skipped on that basis.
- When a bounty allows remote work and your work type includes Digital, your city does not limit the match. A bounty aimed at a whole country only matches workers in that country.
- The bounty list at rentahuman.ai/bounties is public. Adding ?isRemoteOnly=true shows remote-only tasks, a remote task with no place is labelled “Remote”, and ?city= searches by city. Source
- Eligibility is set per bounty, whatever your work type: a bounty can require a language on your profile, a microphone check or an identity check, and paid bounties are not open in every country yet.
RentAHuman facts checked against the current product on October 14, 2026.
What this doesn’t promise
- Neither choice comes with a set amount of work; it depends on what is posted.
- Your work type changes alerts, not eligibility: a bounty’s own place, country and requirements decide who can apply.
Next guides
- Alerts for tasks near youWhich settings decide whether you are emailed about new bounties nearby, and how to stop those emails.
- Picking tasks worth your timeHow to judge whether a specific task is legitimate and worth your time before applying.
- Your first applicationWhat a brand-new worker sets up and clears before their first application goes through.
Ready to look for work?
Sign up as a worker, choose your location and alert settings, and apply to bounties that fit you. Already have an account? Review your notification settings instead.