Published on: 2025-06-06 08:35:58
Technologies that promise to track, manage, and supervise workers, increasingly using artificial intelligence, are getting entrenched in the developing world, according to a new report by Coworker.org, a labor rights nonprofit based in New York. Audits of more than 150 startups and regional companies based in Kenya, Nigeria, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, and India showed workplace surveillance is expanding in scale and sophistication, the researchers said. While large corporations are known to deve
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 01:28:21
Generative AI comes in many forms. Increasingly, though, it’s marketed the same way: with human names and personas that make it feel less like code and more like a co-worker. A growing number of startups are anthropomorphizing AI to build trust fast — and soften its threat to human jobs. It’s dehumanizing, and it’s accelerating. I get why this framing took off. In today’s upside-down economy, where every hire feels like a risk, enterprise startups — many emerging from the famed accelerator Y Co
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 19:03:46
In Brief Unionized quality assurance testers at video game holding company ZeniMax announced Friday that they have reached a tentative contract agreement with Microsoft, which acquired ZeniMax in 2021. This represents Microsoft’s first union contract in the United States. It’s been a little over two years since approximately 300 QA testers announced that they were unionizing through the Communications Workers of America, and they said they’ve been negotiating with Microsoft ever since. Bloomb
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 19:58:41
Unionized quality assurance workers on ZeniMax Media announced today that they had reached a tentative contract agreement with Microsoft, ZeniMax’s parent company. The workers, who are represented by the Communication Workers of America, have spent two years negotiating this contract, which they say “sets new standards for the industry” including new wage agreements and policies on AI tools. According to the union, the new agreement includes new minimum wages, wage increases across the board, a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 12:42:04
After two years of negotiating, ZeniMax Workers United-CWA, the union representing quality assurance workers at ZeniMax Media, has reached a tentative union contract with Microsoft, according to the Communication Workers of America. The union originally formed in 2023 and was immediately recognized by Microsoft, which made its commitment to stay neutral towards union organizing at ZeniMax official in 2024. The new contract will cover over 300 ZeniMax employees and includes "substantial across-t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 20:38:34
is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. The over 300 quality assurance workers of the ZeniMax Workers United-CWA union have reached a tentative contract agreement with Microsoft. It is the first contract agreement at Microsoft since the concerted effort to unionize the video game industry began roughly four years ago. “This is a monumental victory for all current
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 04:04:00
-aniaostudio-/Getty Coding. Research. Learning. These days, Jim Stratton, chief technology officer at human capital management platform Workday, turns to artificial intelligence to boost everyday tasks. Nearly 60% of Workday's 20,000 employees regularly use AI in their daily routine. Half say it provides new insights or helps them be creative, and three-quarters report it makes them more productive, including Stratton. "Increasingly, I lean on it as a tool to help get stuff done, and I find t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 09:00:00
Home services in India — whether it is cleaning, dishwashing, or laundry — have traditionally been offline and informally run. This has often resulted in delays and uncertainties for consumers, as well as inconsistent pay and job insecurity for workers. Recently, however, startups have begun viewing this area as ripe for transformation, leveraging technology to bring predictability, scalability, and structure to the space. Snabbit, founded last year, is one of the early movers in this arena, en
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 23:07:50
The use of AI chatbots has exploded in the workplace. White-collar workers have adopted the tech in huge numbers. Executives are looking for every opportunity to shoehorn AI into every aspect of their businesses. Companies continue to pour tens of billions of dollars into building out enormous data centers to support increasingly power-hungry AI models. But is any of this actually leading to higher efficiency at work and increased pay? According to a recently-released working paper by a pair
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 17:16:00
In brief: As companies aggressively force staff back into the office full-time, more employees are refusing to comply with the demands. A recent study has found that fewer than half of UK workers would agree to a full-time return-to-office (RTO) mandate, with women and parents the most likely to refuse. The report comes from researchers at King's College London (KCL) and King's Business School. They analyzed over a million data points from the UK government's Labour Force Survey (LFS) and 50,00
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 03:03:00
Finding the balance: Workplace automation has long promised to relieve humans of tedious tasks, freeing them to focus on more meaningful and satisfying work. Yet, as automation spreads across industries, new research raises doubts about whether robots truly improve the work lives of employees. Recent academic studies reveal a more complex reality. One investigation, led by Professor Milena Nikolova at the University of Groningen, analyzed data from across Europe and found that workers in highly
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 08:03:00
Finding the balance: Workplace automation has long promised to relieve humans of tedious tasks, freeing them to focus on more meaningful and satisfying work. Yet, as automation spreads across industries, new research raises doubts about whether robots truly improve the work lives of employees. Recent academic studies reveal a more complex reality. One investigation, led by Professor Milena Nikolova at the University of Groningen, analyzed data from across Europe and found that workers in highly
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 10:31:58
"The biggest risk is data escape." Eric Ingebretsen, chief commercial officer at SK TES, an IT asset disposition provider, tells me this early on during a tour of a 128,000-square-foot facility in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He will restate this a few times. A big part of this site's pitch to its clients, including the "hyperscale" customers with gigantic data centers nearby, is that each device is labeled, tracked, and inventoried for its drives—both obvious and hidden—and is either securely wi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 14:31:00
What just happened? Another company has learned that going all-in on AI at the expense of human workers might save money, but the backlash from users can outweigh the financial benefits. Language-learning app Duolingo, whose CEO recently said AI would replace contract workers, has reversed course, stating that the company would "continue to hire" humans and support employees. At the end of April, Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announced plans for the firm to become yet another "AI-first" company, me
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 09:30:50
"The biggest risk is data escape." Eric Ingebretsen, chief commercial officer at SK TES, an IT asset disposition provider, tells me this early on during a tour of a 128,000-square-foot facility in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He will restate this a few times. A big part of this site's pitch to its clients, including the "hyperscale" customers with gigantic data centers nearby, is that each device is labeled, tracked, and inventoried for its drives—both obvious and hidden—and is either securely wi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 14:48:30
For years, many workers at Amazon warehouses walked miles each day to track down inventory. But over the past decade, Amazon has increasingly relied on so-called robotics warehouses, where pickers stand in one spot and pull inventory off shelves delivered to them by lawn-mower-like robots, no walking necessary. The robots generally haven’t displaced humans; Amazon said it has hired hundreds of thousands of warehouse workers since their introduction, while creating many new skilled roles. But th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 21:08:15
As a truckload of bamboo poles pulled into a narrow street, Daisy Pak stubbed out a cigarette, pulled a safety harness over her paint-streaked leggings and began blasting Prince from a Bluetooth speaker. After maneuvering a loaded cart into an elevator, she opened a tiny window on the ninth floor and ducked out onto a narrow pipe, a bunch of zip ties sashaying behind her back like a bushy tail. She called for mid-length bamboo poles that she tied into a latticework clinging to the outside of th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 06:57:59
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) used artificial intelligence from Meta’s Llama model to comb through and analyze emails from federal workers. Materials viewed by WIRED show that DOGE affiliates within the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) tested and used Meta’s Llama 2 model to review and classify responses from federal workers to the infamous “Fork in the Road” email that was sent across the government in late January. The email offered deferred resignation
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 17:00:09
This story was produced by Grist and was co-published with the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting . The workers had spent the morning of November 8, 2021, clipping, trussing, and trellising hundreds of thousands of tomato plants that twisted almost four stories into the air. They were inside one of the world’s largest high-tech greenhouses, which sat on more than 60 acres of a former cattle field in Morehead, Kentucky. As one of the greenhouse workers, who I’ll call Nora, sat down for
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 15:45:37
Though even the best AI models struggle to solve the majority of coding problems, that didn't stop one man's penny-pinching employers from replacing him with the tech anyway. Shawn Kay was a software engineer of 20 years who went from earning $150,000 in upstate New York to living out of a trailer, after he says his former boss outsourced his job to AI. As Fortune reports, he now does odd jobs to make ends meet, like gig work on meal delivery apps, and flipping his stuff on eBay. To make matt
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 04:00:00
Urban India is becoming increasingly used to not having to wait — at least when it comes to getting goods and services delivered. You only need to look at the breakneck pace at which instant delivery apps like Blinkit, Zepto, and Swiggy Instamart have grown and continue to see adoption soar in the country. Pronto, one such startup that lets users book and avail cleaning, laundry, and home services within 10 minutes, is capitalizing on that change in consumer behavior, and it’s now come out of s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 00:13:46
akinbostanci/Getty Images Since the release and viral success of ChatGPT in late 2022, generative AI has been integrated into an ever-expanding number of tech platforms and gadgets. As is often the case with powerful new technologies, generative AI's growth has outpaced our ability to build frameworks for safe and responsible use. Also: How to use ChatGPT freely without giving up your privacy - with one simple trick Teachers, for example, must now contend with the fact that many (if not all)
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 08:00:00
The young developers are having the time of their lives. They pop open bottles of sparkling wine, eat steak dinners, play soccer together, and lounge around in a luxurious private swimming pool, all of their activity captured in photos that were later exposed online. In one picture, a man poses in front of a life-sized Minions cardboard cutout. But despite their exuberance, these are not successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs; they’re IT workers from the Hermit Kingdom of North Korea, who infil
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 16:40:21
Activision Blizzard’s Overwatch team has formed a wall-to-wall union under the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The union, which has been recognized by parent company Microsoft, includes nearly 200 developers "across all disciplines," from design and production to quality assurance, the CWA said in its announcement. It’s the latest development in a broader organizing effort by video game workers, who aim to secure better job protections and improve their working conditions. Last summer,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-26 22:14:59
A new study analyzing the Danish labor market in 2023 and 2024 suggests that generative AI models like ChatGPT have had almost no significant impact on overall wages or employment yet, despite rapid adoption in some workplaces. The findings, detailed in a working paper by economists from the University of Chicago and the University of Copenhagen, provide an early, large-scale empirical look at AI's transformative potential. In "Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects," economists Ande
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-29 17:14:59
The future is a world of jobless workers — except for the enlightened philosopher-kings of venture capital, that is. Or at least that's according to Andreessen Horowitz cofounder Marc Andreessen, who imagines a future where the workers of the world sit jobless, in an employment apocalypse that will affect pretty much everyone except the unique genius of him and his peers. Appearing on his company's a16z podcast, Andreessen made the case that venture capitalists — like he and his rich buddies —
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A new study analyzing the Danish labor market in 2023 and 2024 suggests that generative AI models like ChatGPT have had almost no significant impact on overall wages or employment yet, despite rapid adoption in some workplaces. The findings, detailed in a working paper by economists from the University of Chicago and the University of Copenhagen, provide an early, large-scale empirical look at AI's transformative potential. In "Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects," economists Ande
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Annual labour movement commemoration This article is about the labour holiday. For the traditional spring holiday, see May Day . For other labour-related holidays, see Labour Day (disambiguation) International Workers' Day, also called Labour Day in some countries[1] and often referred to as May Day,[2][3] is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every year on 1 May,[4][5] or the first Monday in May.[6][7] Tradition
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Content moderators who comb through harmful material uploaded to online platforms have formed a global trade union alliance in a bid to improve working conditions. The Global Trade Union Alliance of Content Moderators (GTUACM) announced today in Nairobi, Kenya, says it aims to “hold Big Tech responsible” for failing to address workers’ issues like low wages, trauma, and lack of union representation across the industry. Companies like Meta, Bytedance, and Alphabet often outsource content moderat
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is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. Electronic Arts is reportedly eliminating “between 300 and 400 positions” and scrapping a game set in the Titanfall universe, codenamed R7, that was in the works at Respawn Entertainment, according to Bloomberg. “As part of our continued focus on our long-term strategic priorities, we’ve made select changes within our organization that more e
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