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Aurialie Jublin

The End of a Job as We Know It - 0 views

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tictravail travail emploi organisation agilité

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  • Pfizer, for example, has set "increase business agility" as one of its four goals for the coming year. The company created an internal labor marketplace called PfizerWorks that lets employees bid on work from each other. Executives at Siemens told me that one of their biggest challenges today is moving engineers into new roles so they can focus on new business areas. InBev (Anheuser Busch), Scotiabank, and MetLife have all launched global talent mobility programs to force people to gain global awareness and expand business opportunities.
  • In our research we call this "the borderless workplace," a concept which explains how workers work seamlessly with people inside and outside their organization on a continuous basis. And this shift has redefined what a “job” actually is.
  • What this all means is that in today's high performing companies, people now take on "roles" not "jobs." They are responsible for "tasks" and "projects" and not simply "functions."
  • Aurialie Jublin on 21 Feb 13
     
    "The concept of a job, as we know it, is starting to go away. Over the last year I've been speaking with many corporate business and HR leaders and have heard a common theme: we need our organizations to be more agile. We need to redesign the organization so we can learn faster, communicate better, and respond more rapidly to change. This quest for the agile organization has changed the nature of what we call a job. "
Aurialie Jublin

A New Approach to Aid: How a Basic Income Program Saved a Namibian Village - SPIEGEL ON... - 0 views

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  • The idea is simple: The payment of a basic monthly income, funded with tax revenues, of 100 Namibia dollars, or about €9 ($13), for each citizen. There are no conditions, and nothing is expected in return. The money comes from various organizations, including AIDS foundations, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Protestant churches in Germany's Rhineland and Westphalia regions. The organizers of the trial want to know what their subjects will do with the 100 Namibian dollars, whether they will invest the money or waste it on drink, and whether it will deter them from working or motivate them to work harder. Most of all, they want to know if it alleviates poverty.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 25 Jul 14
     
    "It sounds like a communist utopia, but a basic income program pioneered by German aid workers has helped alleviate poverty in a Nambian village. Crime is down and children can finally attend school. Only the local white farmers are unhappy."
Aurialie Jublin

How Reddit created the world's largest dialogue between scientists and the general publ... - 1 views

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science sciences communication communauté recherche reddit

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  • Reading through the dozens of science AMAs that have been conducted on Reddit, it seems evident that r/science is fulfilling a need that may have been previously unforeseen by the scientific community of researchers who spend years toiling in obscurity, testing and retesting their hypotheses so that one day their hard work may see the light of day in the form of a journal article. In a world where scholarly journals are often frustratingly difficult to access by the general public, there remains a demand in the market for a way to remove the friction between scientists and non scientists. With the rise of MOOCs and other discussion tools like Reddit, science communication is transcending its heretofore gatekeepers. “My personal belief, in the end, is that scientists really work for the people,” said Mason. “We’re allowed to follow our intellectual curiosity insomuch as we share it with other human beings.” With six months of AMAs and thousands of questions uploaded, Reddit’s Science AMA series seems to have brought us significantly closer to that goal.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 27 Aug 14
     
    "Allen, a PhD chemist who works for the Dow Chemical Company in Pennsylvania, began to think about ways he could leverage r/science's massive reach to connect scientists to the general public. R/science is a default subreddit, meaning it's visible to people visiting Reddit.com even if they aren't logged in. According to internal metrics Allen has access to, r/science gets between 30,000 and 100,000 unique visitors a day; it's arguably the largest community-run science forum on the internet. So what if r/science were to form an AMA series of its own, focused solely on working scientists who are producing interesting, groundbreaking research?"
Aurialie Jublin

Exploring portable ratings for gig workers - Doteveryone - Medium - 0 views

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  • Unlike the traditional economy, the gig economy doesn’t rely on CVs or letters of recommendation. You build your reputation on one platform at a time — and your reputation is often the route to higher earnings (A service user is more likely to choose someone with 100 five-star ratings than just one or two). Platforms don’t want people to leave, so they don’t let workers have ownership over their own ratings. Leaving a service means starting over.
  • More recently, we’ve been exploring the “how” of ratings portability: what technology, data, user experience and investment might be needed to make this real.Our design team, along with our policy intern and developer James Darling, have been conducting user research and prototyping possible technical solutions for ratings portability. Here’s where we’ve got to so far.
  • “Cab” drivers didn’t have visible habits around their ratings, weren’t checking them frequently and when we spoke about them, they told us that this wasn’t something they’d considered before or something they were particularly concerned about. They were confident in their skills and ability to find work outside of their platforms, and viewed ratings more as performance indicators for their platform owners — the main fear being a drop below 3.5 stars, where they might be dropped from the platform completely.
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  • This “performance indicator over ratings” feeling was even stronger with food delivery workers. They expressed even less concern about the issue, focussing more on their delivery metrics such as attendance and cancellations. The rider app screens we were shown support this.
  • This makes sense for both food delivery and transit: the customer has little to no ability to use workers’ reputation data to inform their purchase decision. (When we press a button to order a cab or for food to be delivered, speed is the primary factor and platforms emphasise that in their design.)
  • It was a radically different story for tradespeople. Their reputation data feels important to them, and they prefer to keep control over it. They preferred word of mouth reputation and recommendations, as there was no middleman who could take that away from them. Online platforms were seen as something to graduate away from once you had a sufficient “real world” presence.
  • Alongside our user research, James Darling looked at the technical possibilities, drawing on the Resolution Trust’s initial work and the research that our policy intern did. They came up with five possible solutions and gave them names and some logos. They are in increasing order of complexity.
  • Personal referenceThis is the status quo: when approaching a new employer, workers create their own CVs, loosely standardised by convention.
  • Publicly hosted reputationsWhat feels like a technical quick win is to ensure that a platform hosts a publicly accessible web archive of all worker reputation data, including for profiles which have been disabled. This would allow workers to provide a URL to anyone they wish to provide their reputation data. How would this be encouraged/enforced?
  • Profile verificationHow does a worker prove that they are the owner of a publicly hosted reputation profile? There are a few technical solutions that could be explored here, like a public/private key verification or explorations around OAuth. Is it possible to create something that is secure, but also usable?
  • Decentralised open data standardA data standard for reputation data could be created, allowing automated transfer and use of reputation data by competing platforms or external services. Creating the standard would be the trickiest part here: is it possible to translate between both technical differences of different platforms (eg 5 stars versus 80%), but also the values inherent in them.
  • Centralised data holderPerhaps one way to help standardise and enforce this easy transfer of reputation data is to create some sort of legal entity responsible for holding and transferring this reputation data. A lot of discussion would have to be had about the legal framework for this: is it a government department, a charity, a de facto monopoly?
  • We also thought about ways to verify identity (by including an RSA public key), what a best practice data standard might look like (here’s an example in JSON), and what the import process might look like (via a mock competitor site). The code for all this is on Github, and everything above is available in a slide deck here.
  • I worry that the concept of “owning” people’s ratings reflects some deeper, more systemic issues around who “owns” things more generally in society. In the coming months, we’d like to keep working with like minded organisations to explore that idea more, as well as how the cumulative effects of those systems affect us all.
Aurialie Jublin

What Value Creation Will Look Like in the Future - Jack Hughes - Harvard Business Review - 1 views

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valeur management créativité

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  • Aurialie Jublin on 27 May 13
     
    The value of products and services today is based more and more on creativity - the innovative ways that they take advantage of new materials, technologies, and processes. Value creation in the past was a function of economies of industrial scale: mass production and the high efficiency of repeatable tasks. Value creation in the future will be based on economies of creativity: mass customization and the high value of bringing a new product or service improvement to market; the ability to find a solution to a vexing customer problem; or, the way a new product or service is sold and delivered. Organizational structure will have to change to meet the new reality of creativity as a core component of value and continuous innovation as the mechanism to sustain it. The new organization will include structures that support innovation 24/7/365 and at increasing scale. They will be more like organisms than machines. They'll be structurally fluid - bringing individuals together in creative networks designed to adapt to an ever changing landscape of customer needs and desires, often at a moment's notice. Management will be the job of those who oversee creative economies, ecosystems, and communities; it will be the job of managing innovation on a continuous basis where scale is used to create differentiated products and services to solve problems and meet needs on a customer by customer basis - all in real or near real time.
Aurialie Jublin

The Future of Work - livre blanc de Esselte - 0 views

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tictravail travail future futur

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  • Aurialie Jublin on 23 Apr 13
     
    "As a result of the internet, new technologies, the huge increase in mobile or home working, part-time jobs and today's 'always on', 24/7 culture, we found that most people now spend more time working than sleeping. In fact by 2015 around 40% of the total workforce will be mobile. The reason for this is that work is no longer where the office is but for mobile workers it is wherever they are - be that their car, home, coffee shop, the airport, customer site or even on holiday. This is just one area our report identifies as having a massive impact on the way we work;" explains Richard Watson. Other factors covered in the paper include: Ageing workforces: By 2050 over 65's will represent around 50% of the working population in Europe Millennials and Gen Y: More tech-savvy than any other generation The generation gap: Millennials think senior management do not relate to them and use autocratic command and control structures Gender: The huge economic impact of getting more women in the workforce especially at senior levels. Eliminating the gap between male and female employment would boost GDP by 9% in US, 13% in Eurozone and 16% in Japan (Goldman Sachs). Mobile working: By 2015 new technologies mean 1.3 billion (or 40%) of the total working population will be mobile Security of Information: Workers will have their own devices (BYOD) and potentially work remotely creating huge security and data storage/retrieval challenges. Where will new talent for workforce come from? Talent scarcities worldwide mean that by 2030 the USA will need to add over 25 million workers to its talent base to sustain economic growth and Western Europe more than 45 million.
Aurialie Jublin

The Kinetic Organisation by Andrew Mawson of Advanced Workplace Associates - 1 views

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organisation workplace hiérarchie innovation

shared by Aurialie Jublin on 15 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • In order to maintain order, you need to attain an alternative structure. In the Kinetic Organisation, a natural ‘molecular’ structure replaces command, control and hierarchy. A series of cells are linked together and effectively ‘loaded’ in free space to deliver the organisation’s outcomes.
  • The Kinetic Organisation must: Allow the enterprise to ‘turn on a dime/sixpence’ changing without pain to adapt to new threats, opportunities and economic conditions. Be well placed to meet its promises to clients, shareholders and people. Maintain a flexible cost base and infrastructure so that it can ‘inflate’ and ‘deflate’ its operations without incurring penalty costs. Create a ‘safe’ environment in which people feel able to contribute and share their knowledge and innovation.  This includes constructively challenging the way things are done so as to achieve a better end. Constantly keep its products, services, people skills, capabilities, processes, infrastructure and costs under review to make sure every element of the business always remains fresh and competitive. Allow elements within each structure to be treated and structured in different ways depending on their risks, activities and the markets in which they operate.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 15 Feb 13
     
    The 21st Century alternative to hierarchical organisations
abrugiere

Bring Your Own Cloud : un nouveau challenge pour la DSI | E-media, the Econocom blog - 0 views

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  • abrugiere on 10 Feb 14
     
    Le BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) est presque une suite logique au phénomène BYOD et pose les mêmes problématiques pour les responsables IT et sécurité des organisations. un des effets de la mobilité et de la consumérisation IT
Aurialie Jublin

Don't Fear the Robots Taking Your Job, Fear the Monopolies Behind Them | Motherboard - 0 views

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robot robotisation travail tictravail emploi

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  • She imagined a hair salon of the future, where robots would deliver the perfect cut, but human staff would fulfill the most important role—understanding the needs of their clients.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 24 Jun 14
     
    "We'll need strategies to shift jobs into the fields where humans outperform robots, and tax and welfare schemes that take the new economy into account. Ultimately, the impact of the robot revolution won't just be down to the technology itself, but how we use it-or more importantly, whether the people using it is in fact a "we," or a limited, elitist "they.""
Aurialie Jublin

How Technology Can Help Work/Life Balance - WSJ - WSJ - 0 views

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tictravail pro-perso temps

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  • Aurialie Jublin on 06 Nov 14
     
    Smartphones have made it more difficult than ever for people to separate their jobs from the rest of their lives. It doesn't have to be that way.
Aurialie Jublin

Coca-Cola Hopes Its Startup Incubator Is The Real Thing | TechCrunch - 0 views

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startup incubateur agilité créativité innovation

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  • Aurialie Jublin on 17 Nov 14
     
    Suddenly major brands are looking to get into the startup funding game, whether we're talking GE, Yammer or even non-tech brands like McDonald's. Coca-Cola is another consumer brand looking for an edge by funding new startups. Coke isn't doing it for pure investment purposes necessarily, but because they believe lean startups can give them the creativity, agility and speed to market they lack. Startups also put a fresh set of eyes on a problem. And even a company like Coke with more than 700K employees spread across nearly 200 countries needs that once in a while.
Thierry Nabeth

Workers of the world, log in. (LinkedIn & recruting) - 1 views

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travail recrutement networking

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  • Thierry Nabeth on 28 Nov 14
     
    The social network has already shaken up the way professionals are hired. Its ambitions go far beyond that. ... It is even difficult to quantify the impact of LinkedIn on labour markets so far. In theory, making it easier for people to find better jobs could affect the rate of job turnover within firms: recruiters say they have noticed little impact, and that other factors (such as the economic cycle)-seem to matter more. But no one really knows.
Aurialie Jublin

Huge survey reveals seven social classes in UK - BBC News - 0 views

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travail social classe social

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  • The new classes are defined as:

    • Elite - the most privileged group in the UK, distinct from the other six classes through its wealth. This group has the highest levels of all three capitals
    • Established middle class - the second wealthiest, scoring highly on all three capitals. The largest and most gregarious group, scoring second highest for cultural capital
    • Technical middle class - a small, distinctive new class group which is prosperous but scores low for social and cultural capital. Distinguished by its social isolation and cultural apathy
    • New affluent workers - a young class group which is socially and culturally active, with middling levels of economic capital
    • Traditional working class - scores low on all forms of capital, but is not completely deprived. Its members have reasonably high house values, explained by this group having the oldest average age at 66
    • Emergent service workers - a new, young, urban group which is relatively poor but has high social and cultural capital
    • Precariat, or precarious proletariat - the poorest, most deprived class, scoring low for social and cultural capital
  • Aurialie Jublin on 03 Apr 13
     
    Elite Establisshed middle class Technical middle class New affluent workers Traditional working class Emergent service workers Precariat
Aurialie Jublin

Technology and jobs: Coming to an office near you | The Economist - 0 views

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technologie emploi tictravail innovation

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  • Even if new jobs and wonderful products emerge, in the short term income gaps will widen, causing huge social dislocation and perhaps even changing politics. Technology’s impact will feel like a tornado, hitting the rich world first, but eventually sweeping through poorer countries too. No government is prepared for it.
  • Worse, it seems likely that this wave of technological disruption to the job market has only just started. From driverless cars to clever household gadgets (see article), innovations that already exist could destroy swathes of jobs that have hitherto been untouched. The public sector is one obvious target: it has proved singularly resistant to tech-driven reinvention. But the step change in what computers can do will have a powerful effect on middle-class jobs in the private sector too.
  • One recent study by academics at Oxford University suggests that 47% of today’s jobs could be automated in the next two decades.
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  • At the same time, the digital revolution is transforming the process of innovation itself, as our special report explains. Thanks to off-the-shelf code from the internet and platforms that host services (such as Amazon’s cloud computing), provide distribution (Apple’s app store) and offer marketing (Facebook), the number of digital startups has exploded. J
  • f this analysis is halfway correct, the social effects will be huge. Many of the jobs most at risk are lower down the ladder (logistics, haulage), whereas the skills that are least vulnerable to automation (creativity, managerial expertise) tend to be higher up, so median wages are likely to remain stagnant for some time and income gaps are likely to widen.
  • The main way in which governments can help their people through this dislocation is through education systems. One of the reasons for the improvement in workers’ fortunes in the latter part of the Industrial Revolution was because schools were built to educate them—a dramatic change at the time. Now those schools themselves need to be changed, to foster the creativity that humans will need to set them apart from computers. There should be less rote-learning and more critical thinking. Technology itself will help, whether through MOOCs (massive open online courses) or even video games that simulate the skills needed for work.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 17 Jan 14
     
    "INNOVATION, the elixir of progress, has always cost people their jobs. In the Industrial Revolution artisan weavers were swept aside by the mechanical loom. Over the past 30 years the digital revolution has displaced many of the mid-skill jobs that underpinned 20th-century middle-class life. Typists, ticket agents, bank tellers and many production-line jobs have been dispensed with, just as the weavers were."
abrugiere

Societies | Free Full-Text | Exercise as Labour: Quantified Self and the Transformation... - 0 views

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  • Aurialie Jublin on 05 Sep 14
     
    "The recent increase in the use of digital self-tracking devices has given rise to a range of relations to the self often discussed as quantified self (QS). In popular and academic discourse, this development has been discussed variously as a form of narcissistic self-involvement, an advanced expression of panoptical self-surveillance and a potential new dawn for e-health. This article proposes a previously un-theorised consequence of this large-scale observation and analysis of human behaviour; that exercise activity is in the process of being reconfigured as labour. QS will be briefly introduced, and reflected on, subsequently considering some of its key aspects in relation to how these have so far been interpreted and analysed in academic literature. Secondly, the analysis of scholars of "digital labour" and "immaterial labour" will be considered, which will be discussed in relation to what its analysis of the transformations of work in contemporary advanced capitalism can offer to an interpretation of the promotion and management of the self-tracking of exercise activities. Building on this analysis, it will be proposed that a thermodynamic model of the exploitation of potential energy underlies the interest that corporations have shown in self-tracking and that "gamification" and the promotion of an entrepreneurial selfhood is the ideological frame that informs the strategy through which labour value is extracted without payment. Finally, the potential theoretical and political consequences of these insights will be considered."
  • abrugiere on 15 Sep 14
     
    à lire / Digital labor
Christophe Gauthier

Everyday Sociology Blog: The Rationality of Irrationality - 0 views

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  • The Rationality of Irrationality
  • One of the most well-known sociological theories is George Ritzer’s idea of McDonaldization. Ritzer based his idea on Max Weber’s theories of bureaucracy and rationality. Weber was concerned that capitalism and industrialization were fueling a world where our individual freedoms were being eroded. He warned that we were increasingly living in an iron cage, as we become trapped in an impersonal world that values efficiency, rationality, and control over individuality and autonomy. Ritzer picked up on Weber’s concerns and adapted them to contemporary life
  • Ritzer’s theory of McDonaldization has four dimensions:
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  • Efficiency: Completing tasks in the most productive and proficient manner. Calculability: Being able to quantify the output; emphasizing quantity over quality. Predictability: Ensuring that tasks, results, and products are the always the same. Control: Replacing human efforts with non-human technology.
  • Ritzer makes the point that when our lives become McDonaldized, the resulting effect is often one of irrationality. In other words, as we try to become efficient, calculable, predictable, and controlling, we often end up with illogical, counterintuitive, and problematic results
  • just like our consumption of fast food, basing our educational system on standardized tests and using social media for our interpersonal communication have many irrational drawbacks. In the world of education, we have teachers “teaching to the test,” and students feeling like empty vessels that are being filled with irrelevant information (see my recent blog about this). In terms of communication, when technology replaces face-to-face interaction we end up, to use the title of Sheryl Turkle’s book, Alone Together
  • The rationality of irrationality. If the result of trying to be extremely efficient, calculable, and predictable is irrational, then might it be true that we can be more rational if we try to be inefficient, un-calculable and unpredictable?
  • Every Thursday during the summer and fall I pick up vegetables and fruits at the Huguenot Street Farm—my local CSA (Community Supported Agriculture).
  • In the framework of McDonaldization, the CSA model seems quite irrational. And yet, the results are undeniably rational. The food I am eating is healthy, fresh, natural, and free of chemicals, and it is not genetically modified. I usually get so many vegetables and fruits each week that it forces me to eat in a healthier way than I might normally eat. The money I am spending is staying in, and contributing to, the local economy instead of adding to the profits of some faraway multinational corporation. The people I see each week allow me to build a greater sense of community and social capital. As my colleagues Brian Obach and Kathleen Tobin found in their study of CSAs, this un-McDonaldized form of food production has significant benefits for individuals and their communities
Aurialie Jublin

Five Trends Shaping the Future of Work - Forbes - 0 views

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  •  The technologies in the consumer web help encourage and support new behaviors such as creating communities, being open and transparent, sharing information and ideas, easily being able to find people and information, and collaboration.  These behaviors (and technologies) are now making their way into our organizations and are helping shape the future of work.
  • Virtually every collaboration platform today has a cloud-based deployment option.  This means that the barrier to entry is virtually zero.  Business units no longer need to wait for corporate approval or the blessing of IT to make investments in these areas.
  • Most organizations today are struggling to adapt to this changing workforce as baby boomers are starting to make their way out.  This is a big factor shaping the future of work as organizations seeking to attract and retain top talent are going to need to adapt.
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  • The idea of “connecting to work” is become more prevalent within organizations as they are starting to allow for more flexible work environments.  With an internet connection you can now access everything you need to get your job done.  The notion of having to work 9-5 and commuting to an office is dead.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 21 Jun 13
     
    "When it comes to the future of work there are a few key trends which business leaders need to pay attention to.  Understanding these trends will allow organizations to better prepare and adapt to the changes which are impacting the way we work.  These five trends are: 1) changing behaviors which are being shaped by social media entering the enterprise 2) new collaborative technologies 3) a shift to the "cloud" 4) millennials soon becoming the majority workforce and 5) mobility and "connecting to work.""
Aurialie Jublin

Full memo: Jeff Bezos responds to brutal NYT story, says it doesn't represent the ... - 0 views

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  • Aurialie Jublin on 17 Aug 15
     
    The cruel and back-stabbing environment described by The New York Timesin a report this weekend on the workplace culture at Amazon.com has struck a nerve with Jeff Bezos. In a memo to employees this weekend, obtained by GeekWire, Bezos says he doesn't recognize the company described in the article. In the memo, Bezos encourages Amazon employees to read the report, and requests that anyone seeing the type of abusive culture described in the piece should report it immediately to human resources or directly to him.
Aurialie Jublin

What Does A Union Look Like In The Gig Economy? | Fast Company | Business + Innovation - 0 views

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digital labor syndicat gig economy protest

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  • Drivers who work on Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar have started "App-Based Drivers Associations" in at least two states. The California branch teamed up with local Teamsters in August for "organizational and lobbying assistance," and in September, after Uber drivers in New York created a Facebook Page called Uber Drivers Network NYC, some of them went on strike over Uber fare cuts.
  • Like it or not, employment in the United States looks different than it did 50 years ago—at least 30% of the workforce are independent contractors, the ratio of part-time workers to full-time workers is still higher than before the recession, and there are 2.87 million temporary workers, a record number. Some argue that the gig economy—comprised of companies like Uber, TaskRabbit, Postmates, and Handy, who coordinate independent contractors on a task-by-task basis instead of hiring employees—is a promising development in this conundrum. It offers flexible supplemental income the regular economy is not supplying. Others argue it’s a return to the piecework system that exploited workers before the modern concept of "employee" came on the scene.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 20 Feb 15
     
    "WITHOUT THE RIGHT TO UNIONIZE, GIG ECONOMY WORKERS RISK EXPLOITATION. BUT ORGANIZING 21RST CENTURY WORKERS IS NO EASY FEAT."
Aurialie Jublin

Case Study: Fairmondo - Commons Transition Primer - 0 views

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  • Originally founded in Germany in 2012, Fairmondo aims to federate and expand to create a global online marketplace, but with ownership firmly in hands of their local users. The German coop currently gathers over 2000 members who have invested over 600,000 euros in shares. It is open both to professional and private sellers and the products on offer have no general restrictions unless they are illegal or run counter to Farmondo’s values. The core values are fairness and the promotion of responsible consumption. Rather than having to find fairly sourced products from a variety of places, Fairmondo practically gathers them in federated, democratic platforms. The fairness of the products in question is assessed by a shared criteria which remains open to discussion and improvement by the members and the Fairmondo user base. The platform also includes certain products which are not necessarily fair trade, for example books, with more than two million on offer.
  • The economic democracy ethos surrounding ownership and control of the platform goes beyond the practices of most cooperatives. Fairmondo calls this “Cooperativism 2.0” and asks all new Fairmondo chapters to adapt the following seven Core Principles:
  • Consent and majority consensus:  90% of Fairmondo constituents must agree prior any modification to the general principles.
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  • Democratic ownership and accountability to all stakeholders
  • Independence of individual vested interests: Disproportionate financial investments or investments by non-cooperative associations is prohibited.
  • Uncompromising transparency: Fairmondo’s commitment to full transparency may only be limited by jurisdiction-specific legal requirements of wherever the chapter is located.
  • nvolving the crowd: A Cooperative 2.0 structure promotes authentic crowd involvement while fostering confidence. Fairmondo has successfully used crowdfunding and crowdsourcing to strengthen the platform.
  • Open source: Fairmondo coops are committed to open source and innovation.
  • Fair, multi-constituent distribution of profit and wages: Dividends are distributed as broadly as possible, preventing individuals from accumulating more than their fair share. 25% is distributed to coop members through shares. 25% is distributed through “Fair Funding Points” (voluntary work is rewarded by points which legally stake a claim on future surpluses). 25% is donated to a number of non-profits chosen by Fairmondo members. The last 25% is pooled into a common fund used for the development of the wider Fairmondo project. Internal stakeholders (partners, staff, etc.) operate under a defined salary range ration of 1 to 7 from lowest to highest paid.
  • Since the creation of the German marketplace, Fairmondo has also federated to the UK. The objective of its internationalization process is that, once there are five Fairmondo nodes, these will be supported by a global framework organization which will be sustainably controlled and co-owned by the local cooperatives.
  • Fairmondo is an excellent example of an Open Cooperative, as it meets the four criteria: oriented towards the common good; multi constituent in nature; actively creates Commons; transnationally oriented. The  global organization’s vision is analogous to the role of the non-profit foundations outlined in the ecosystem of commons-based peer production.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 26 Feb 18
     
    "Fairmondo is a digital online marketplace managed by a multi-constituent cooperative focusing on fair commerce."
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