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Netflix - writers, and content creation model

Netflix - writers, and content creation model

Thumbtack, Handy, Angi - labor Marketplaces and SaaS platforms

tips suggestions for entrepreneurs trying to create Marketplace businesses

Exoskeleton Technology - Robotics and Automation

Exoskeleton Technology - Robotics and Automation

Robotic process automation, or RPA - and AI in the Workplace

Robotic process automation, or RPA - and AI in the Workplace

Minimum wages, worker pay

a collection of articles looking at minimum wages

Sales, Marketing and AI in the Workplace

a collection of articles about AI (artificial intelligence and machine learning applications) in ...

UiPath - and AI in the Workplace

a collection of articles about AI (artificial intelligence and machine learning applications) in ...

Getting started with AI in the Workplace

Getting started with AI in the Workplace

Amazon - wages, worker pay, business model and strategy

a collection of articles looking at Amazon - wages, worker pay, business model and strategy

AI in HR, Recruiting and the Workplace

a collection of articles about AI (artificial intelligence and machine learning applications) in ...

Google - employees, contractors and controversy

a collection about Google - employees, contractors and controversy

AI in the Workplace - Special Report from The Economist

a collection of articles about AI in the Workplace - a Special Report from The Economist

AI in the Workplace

a collection of articles about AI (artificial intelligence and machine learning applications) in ...

CIC: Cambridge Innovation Center

A collection of articles and videos looking at Co-working

How to fix education - an Idea - pay teachers more

a collection of articles about a simple idea -- pay teachers more money -- to fix education

Coworking Spaces

A collection of articles and videos looking at Co-working

AGI - Artificial General Intelligence , fears and possible futures

General AI: To Be Feared Or Embraced? A collection of articles and resources from leading (human...

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Article

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)


Article

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)


Article

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)


Article

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)


Article

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)


Article

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)


Article

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)


Article

Why Amazon Really Raised Its Minimum Wage to $15 | WIRED

The company didn't act purely out of the goodness of its heart. (2018)


Article

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)


Article

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)


Article

7 Tips for Managing Freelancers and Independent Contractors | Harvard

Start by understanding what they want. (2015)


Article

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)


Article

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)


Article

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)


Article

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)


Article

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)


Article

Guide to Employment | Stripe: Atlas

Atlas’ guide to the legalities of employing people in your online business. (2018)


Article

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)


Article

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)


Article

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)


Article

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)


Article

I’ve Worked Remotely For 5 Years, And It’s Stressing Me Out | Fast Company

In software engineering, remote working makes a lot of sense since, most of the time, you only need a computer and an internet connection to perfor... (2018)


Article

NFL Cheerleader Pay: This Super Bowl, Let’s Remember The Ultimate Wage Gap | Fast Company

As the Super Bowl kicks off on Sunday, with its half billion in ad revenue and tickets priced at a minimum of $3,600, let’s take a moment to rememb... (2018)


Article

Inside Uber's Effort To Fix Its Culture Through A Harvard-Inspired 'University'| Forbes

Uber's putting its employees through school to learn to be a better company. (2018)


Article

What gig workers can learn from romance writers | BBC

With the median income for romance authors tripling in the e-book era, other gig workers could stand to take a page from these novelists' books. ... (2018)


Article

How Will AI Change Work? Here Are 5 Schools of Thought | Harvard Business Review

In some versions, society will fundamentally change. (2018)


Article

Tesla’s Elon Musk May Have Boldest Pay Plan in Corporate History - The New York Times

Mr. Musk agreed to stay as chief executive for 10 years, with compensation tied to $50 billion leaps in Tesla’s valuation. Otherwise, he makes zero. (2018)


Article

20 Female-Founded Startups That Grew Like Crazy in 2017 | Inc.com

Women entrepreneurs have quietly been accomplishing amazing things this year. (2017)


Article

The compelling case for working a lot less - BBC

Mastering 'active rest' is far harder than it looks, but there are good reasons why we should keep working at it (2017)


Video

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)


Podcast

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)


Book

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)


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