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Foxconn Chief Equates Employees To Animals
While I suspect there’s a lot lost in translation here,Foxconn chairman Terry Gou made a wildly distasteful joke this week at the Taipei Zoo, saying (according to WantChinaTimes): “Hon Hai (Foxconn)...
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Backed By Andreessen, Virtual Workforce MobileWorks Completes 1M Tasks For...
MobileWorks launched last summer with a simple, yet big mission: Build a viable alternative for Amazon Mechanical Turk and in so doing create a motivated, happy and accurate virtual workforce. To be...
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Apple’s 2013 Supplier Responsibility Report Includes 72% Bump In Audits For...
Apple has released its 2013 Supplier Responsibility Progress Report, and it features a number of updates from last year, including Apple’s decision to join the Fair Labor Association (a notable...
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This Labor Day, Reflect On Diversity And The Future
2014 is the year that work became a central point of discussion in Silicon Valley. For the engineers and knowledge workers in the region, issues of diversity and inclusion finally got their turn in...
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The Other Ag Sector Problem That Big Data Can Solve
The average city-poke thinks about farm labor as the last of a dying breed of worker — replaced by $700,000 combines and all sorts of fancy technology that enables a farmer to do more than granddad...
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How Startups Can Become The Unexpected Parental Leave Champs
Work hard, write code, get rich. The technology business is rarely regarded as anything other than fast-paced and family-phobic. But the last few months have felt like a summer of change, as...
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California bill to give gig workers organizing rights stalls over antitrust...
A controversial bill that would have given gig workers the right to collectively bargain with the tech companies they work for stalled in the California legislature today, meaning that workers will...
View ArticleFoxconn Chief Equates Employees To Animals
While I suspect there’s a lot lost in translation here,Foxconn chairman Terry Gou made a wildly distasteful joke this week at the Taipei Zoo, saying (according to WantChinaTimes): “Hon Hai (Foxconn)...
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Backed By Andreessen, Virtual Workforce MobileWorks Completes 1M Tasks For...
MobileWorks launched last summer with a simple, yet big mission: Build a viable alternative for Amazon Mechanical Turk and in so doing create a motivated, happy and accurate virtual workforce. While...
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Apple’s 2013 Supplier Responsibility Report Includes 72% Bump In Audits For...
Apple has released its 2013 Supplier Responsibility Progress Report, and it features a number of updates from last year, including Apple’s decision to join the Fair Labor Association (a notable first),...
View ArticleThis Labor Day, Reflect On Diversity And The Future
2014 is the year that work became a central point of discussion in Silicon Valley. For the engineers and knowledge workers in the region, issues of diversity and inclusion finally got their turn in the...
View ArticleThe Other Ag Sector Problem That Big Data Can Solve
The average city-poke thinks about farm labor as the last of a dying breed of worker — replaced by $700,000 combines and all sorts of fancy technology that enables a farmer to do more than granddad...
View ArticleHow Startups Can Become The Unexpected Parental Leave Champs
Work hard, write code, get rich. The technology business is rarely regarded as anything other than fast-paced and family phobic. But the last few months have felt like a summer of change, as...
View ArticleCalifornia bill to give gig workers organizing rights stalls over antitrust...
A controversial bill that would have given gig workers the right to collectively bargain with the tech companies they work for stalled in the California legislature today, meaning that workers will...
View ArticleDespite minimum wage increase, some Amazon workers say losing stock options...
Amazon’s announcement this week that it will raise its minimum wage for workers in the United States and United Kingdom earned it a wave of positive publicity, but backlash is already growing as...
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Last-mile training and the future of work in an expanding gig economy
Ryan Craig Contributor Ryan Craig is managing director of University Ventures. More posts by this contributor Last-mile training and the future of work in an expanding gig economy Existential...
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How ‘ghost work’ in Silicon Valley pressures the workforce, with Mary Gray
The phrase “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” was originally meant sarcastically. It’s not actually physically possible to do — especially while wearing Allbirds and having just fallen off a...
View ArticleUber lays off 435 people across engineering and product teams
Uber has laid off 435 employees across its product and engineering teams, the company announced today. Combined, the layoffs represent about 8% of the organizations, with 170 people leaving the product...
View ArticleGig worker bill, AB5, passes California State Senate
Assembly Bill 5, the gig worker bill opposed by the likes of Uber, Lyft and DoorDash, has passed in the California State Senate. This comes shortly after California Governor Gavin Newsom officially put...
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Uber plans to keep defending independent contractor model for drivers
In light of gig worker protections bill AB5 passing in the California State Senate last night, amendments to AB5 passing in the Assembly this morning, Uber has made it clear it plans to do whatever it...
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