2023-12-13
🇪🇺 Parliament & Council reached a provisional agreement on the #PlatformWork Directive: - First ever EU-rules on #algorithmicmanagement; - Presumption of employment triggered by two out of five indicators; - Prohibition of dismissal by automated systems https://www.europarl.europa.eu/ ...
Bloomberg
The EU Council and Parliament agree a deal to reclassify millions of ride-hailing and food delivery app workers as staff, possibly costing the industry billions
European Union negotiators backed a deal to reclassify millions of people working for ride-hailing and food-delivery apps …
2023-06-25
The evidence shows that offering remote flexibility makes workers happier and, by extension, more productive & innovative. Arbitrarily calling people back to the office might actually hurt workers' productivity and innovation by driving fatigue and burnout https://www.vox.com/...
Vox
Startups are using remote work to attract talent; report: 81% of companies with fewer than 5K employees offer remote work vs. 26% for those with 25K+ employees
Big tech companies like Google, Meta, and Amazon increasingly require employees spend a minimum amount of time in the office. … Bruce Daisley : For a long time start-ups asked them...
2022-05-30
The pandemic was a boom time for companies that remotely monitor test takers bringing #surveillance into academic settings. Some have been frustrated by the invasiveness, glitches, false allegations of cheating & failure to work equally well for all people https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Proctoring companies like Honorlock that track students' keystrokes and cursor movements during exams to prevent cheating allegedly punish normal behavior
2022-05-29
The pandemic was a boom time for companies that remotely monitor test takers bringing #surveillance into academic settings. Some have been frustrated by the invasiveness, glitches, false allegations of cheating & failure to work equally well for all people https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Proctoring companies like Honorlock that track students' keystrokes and cursor movements during exams to prevent cheating allegedly punish normal behavior
An unsettling glimpse at the digitization of education. — A Florida teenager taking a biology class at a community college got an upsetting note this year. Tweets: @zeynep , @ran...