A headset, your own work, paid per hour.
- The work
- Shift pays you to record the everyday work you already do. That footage trains AI and robotics systems.
- The headset
- We post the headset with your sign-in code and the link to the app you record on. It films from your point of view, hands-free, and does not change how you work.
- The pay
- £20 an hour for work you film at your workplace. A video classed as filmed in a home is still paid, but at a much lower rate. Paid through the app, added to your account as soon as each video is accepted.
- Your privacy
- Faces and personal details are blurred automatically. Audio is off by default.
What’s your job?
We are looking for people to record at work, not around their own home.
Do you own the business you work in?
We are looking for people to record in their place of work, not in their home.
Our review can tell whether a video was filmed somewhere that looks like a home, so pick the one you will actually be doing.
You will need one of these phones to record.
Please confirm that your phone meets the requirements by picking it from the options.
The recording app runs on your own phone with the headset, so it has to be one of these.
We are looking for people who can commit to recording at least 8 hours each week.
Your accepted hours are added up each week, and every one of them is paid.
What could you record most weeks?- At a workplace
- £20 an accepted hour
- Minimum
- 8 hours a week
To record here you must live and work in the UK.
Can you confirm?
A headset, posted to you.
We text your tracking here, and call you about your first job. Nothing else.
Did a friend give you a referral code?
Recording headset · £25
£20 an accepted hour. £25 covers the headset and UK delivery — the only thing you pay, on shifts you are already working.
This is the headset used to record with the Shift app. Pay for it and your sign-in code and app link appear straight away, with the headset posted the same day. It holds your own phone above your eyeline so the camera sees your hands and the task in front of you, leaving both hands free. One size, adjustable at the back, nothing to charge.
What happens when you pay
Your headgear ships todayIt lands in two or three days.
The app, and the code that opens itYour sign-in code is on the next screen.
A manager messages youOn WhatsApp, to set up your first recording.Still to answer: what you do, where you will record, which phone you have, how many hours, that you live and work in the UK and your name, email and phone number.
This covers the headset and UK delivery, and it is the only thing you pay. From there, every accepted hour you record earns on top of the wage you already get.
You pay on our secure checkout, where you also give the address we post the headset to.
Questions about the headset
Hands-on work you already do: kitchens, cafés and bakeries, sewing and alterations, shops, warehouses, garages, building sites. Whole tasks, filmed start to finish, as you do them.
We are looking for people who record at their place of work. A video classed as filmed in a home is still paid, but at a much lower rate, and it is not the work we are recruiting for.
Videos of you talking to camera about your day, and work that Shift sends you, because we don’t send out jobs. Everything we take is work you were already doing.
They train AI and robotics systems. Faces and personal details are blurred automatically, and audio is off by default.
8 hours of recording a week. There is no upper limit set here, and every accepted hour is paid.
£20 an hour for work you film at your workplace. A video classed as filmed in a home is still paid, but at a much lower rate. Paid through the app, added to your account as soon as each video is accepted.
Each video is credited to your app account as soon as it is accepted, rather than on a weekly payment run. You withdraw from your balance through the app.
No. You take part as an independent contractor and you decide whether, when and how often you record. Shift does not send out jobs.
A headset we send you. Your phone goes in the top and it films from your point of view, so both hands stay free for your work, with no tripod and no holding a phone. It does not change how you work.
Audio is off by default, so you do not need to talk while you record. Faces and personal details are blurred automatically.
It covers the headset and UK delivery, and it is the only thing you pay. Every accepted hour you record earns from there, on top of the wage you already get — so it pays for itself in your first couple of hours of recording.
Nothing happens and you owe nothing further. There is nothing to send back and no charge for not using it — but you only earn on the hours you record, so the sooner you start the sooner it pays for itself. You can pick it up again whenever you like.
You confirm the requirements yourself on this page, and paying for the headset is the last step. Your headgear ships the same day, your sign-in code follows, and a manager messages you on WhatsApp to set up your first recording. If you would rather talk to a person before you pay, use the button above.
Your details are saved, so we can reach you either way. Paying for your headset is what completes your application. You pay on our secure checkout, and we never see your card details.