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Hollywood on Strike – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
The Hollywood strike is setting talent against studios, but the problem is that both are jointly threatened by the reality of the Internet and zero... (2023)
Working over 55 hours a week associated with higher risk of stroke, heart attack - BBC
The World Health Organization says the trend may worsen due to the coronavirus pandemic. (2021)
Investing in Wrapbook - Andreessen Horowitz
Project-based workers are an exploding population: 59 million Americans performed freelance work in 2020, representing 22% year-over-year growth an... (2021)
Uber loses gig workers rights challenge in UK Supreme Court – TechCrunch
Uber has lost a long-running employment tribunal challenge in the U.K.’s Supreme Court — with the court dismissing the ride-hailing giant’s appeal ... (2021)
Charlemagne - How the pandemic reversed old migration patterns in Europe | Europe | The Economist
Many Eastern Europeans have left the west and gone home (2021)
How coronavirus threatens the seasonal farmworkers at the heart of the American food supply
The US food supply depends on several million agricultural laborers, who are mostly undocumented, tend to work in close quarters and lack medical i... (2020)
The Young Turks' Progressive Founder Urged His Staff Not To Unionize
In a tense meeting with employees, Cenk Uygur argued that a union doesn’t belong at a small news network struggling to make profits. (2020)
UC Santa Cruz Graduate Student Strike Grows out of a Housing Crisis
In Santa Cruz, an unauthorized graduate student strike threatens to spill into its second week, with no clear resolution in sight. (2020)
Baseball Is Broken. Can Anything Short of a Strike Fix It? - The Ringer
Manny Machado and Bryce Harper remain unsigned. One of the sport’s best catchers had to settle for a one-year deal. Kyler Murray might play another... (2019)
Why Amazon Really Raised Its Minimum Wage to $15 | WIRED
The company didn't act purely out of the goodness of its heart. (2018)
Amazon increases minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 an hour – TechCrunch
Amazon just announced that it will be raising its minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 an hour, effective November 1. The policy will cover emp... (2018)
Work less, get more: New Zealand firm's four-day week an 'unmitigated success' | The Guardian
Reduced hours for same pay increased successful work-life balance management, cutting stress levels and boosting commitment (2018)
The Chinese Workers Who Assemble Designer Bags in Tuscany | The New Yorker
D. T. Max on companies that are using inexpensive immigrant labor to manufacture handbags that bear the coveted “Made in Italy” label... (2018)
Why is everyone so busy? - In search of lost time | The Economist
THE predictions sounded like promises: in the future, working hours would be short and vacations long. “Our grandchildren”, reckoned John Maynard K... (2018)
7 Tips for Managing Freelancers and Independent Contractors | Harvard
Start by understanding what they want. (2015)
Sales Compensation: Beware, You Get What You Ask for – Andreessen Horowitz
The CEO/leadership team needs to make up its mind about what it is they want most because they can’t have it all. This is really key and can’t be i... (2015)
Why Must You Pay Sales People Commissions? – Andreessen Horowitz
"Imagine that you are a great sales person who knows you can sell $10M worth of product in a year. Company A pays commissions and, if you do what y... (2017)
South Korea to shut off computers to stop people working late - BBC News
The initiative in South Korea's local government aims to stop a "culture of working overtime". (2018)
Bricklayers Think They’re Safe From Robots. Decide for Yourself. - The New York Times
Automation vs. artisanship: Why bricklayers aren't worried about robot overlords, for now. (2018)
The dirty industry of fast fashion is causing an environmental “emergency”
The $2.5 trillion fashion industry is the second-largest user (pdf) of water globally, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Euro... (2018)
Guide to Employment | Stripe: Atlas
Atlas’ guide to the legalities of employing people in your online business. (2018)
Time to rethink the meaning of work | World Economic Forum
A growing number of people think their job is useless. The value of your work should not be determined by your paycheck, but by the amount of h... (2018)
Oh, The Places You Will Go With Hackers | TechCrunch
Wanderlust in San Francisco used to mean going anywhere west of Mount Sutro to exotic locales like the Outer Sunset. But a new generation of creati... (2018)
Digital nomads are hiring and firing their governments | TechCrunch
The nation state has survived wars, plagues, and upheaval, but it won’t survive digital nomads, not if people like Karoli Hindriks have something t... (2018)
The relationship between trade and wages - The Economist explains economics
This week “The Economist explains” is given over to economics. For each of six days until Saturday this blog will publish a short explainer on a se... (2018)
Trump imposes 30 percent tariff on solar panel imports | TheHill
President Trump on Monday imposed tariffs of 30 percent on imported solar panel technology in a bid to protect domestic manufacturers while signali... (2018)
Why Germans are protesting against free trade - The Economist explains
FEW countries have done as well out of international trade as Germany. Last week the Ifo Institute, an economics think-tank, said Germany’s current... (2018)
What full employment really means - The Economist explains
IN 1977 America's government gave the Federal Reserve what seems like a straightforward goal: maximum employment. Janet Yellen, the current chairma... (2018)
Is developer compensation becoming bimodal?
Developer compensation has skyrocketed since the demise of the Google et al. wage-suppressing no-hire agreement, to the point where compensation ri... (2018)
GrubHub Drivers Ruled Contractors in Gig-Economy Milestone - Bloomberg
In a significant court decision on the status of so-called gig-economy workers, a federal judge ruled drivers for GrubHub Inc. are independent cont... (2018)
The Great Resignation: Why Millions Of Workers Are Quitting
Americans are leaving their jobs in droves. In August 4.3 million Americans quit their jobs. While some people have left the workforce entirely, jo... (2021)
Will Work For No Benefits: The Challenges Of Being In The New Contract Workforce | NPR
A new NPR/Marist poll shows that more than half of contract workers don't get employee benefits. "We really don't have much of a social safety net,... (2018)
Dying for a Paycheck | Stanford Graduate School of Business
In one survey, 61 percent of employees said that workplace stress had made them sick and 7 percent said they had actually been hospitalized. Job st... (2018)