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Aurialie Jublin

Skills beyond school - Rapport de l'OCDE - 0 views

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compétence skill éducation travail

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  • Aurialie Jublin on 13 Nov 14
     
    Higher level vocational education and training (VET) programmes are facing rapid change and intensifying challenges. What type of training is needed to meet the needs of changing economies? How should the programmes be funded? How should they be linked to academic and university programmes? How can employers and unions be engaged? This report synthesises the findings of the series of  country reports done on skills beyond school.   Chapter 1. The hidden world of professional education and training Chapter 2. Enhancing the profile of professional education and training Chapter 3. Three key elements of high-quality post-secondary programmes Chapter 4. Transparency in learning outcomes Chapter 5. Clearer pathways for learners Chapter 6. Key characteristics of effective vocational systems
Aurialie Jublin

Mozilla's Open Badges - MozillaWiki - 1 views

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  • Aurialie Jublin on 17 Jun 13
     
    It's often difficult to get recognition for skills and achievements gained outside of school. Mozilla's Open Badges project is working to solve that problem, making it easy to issue, earn and display badges across the web. The result: recognizing 21st century skills, unlocking career and educational opportunities, and helping learners everywhere level up in their life and work.
Aurialie Jublin

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

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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."
Aurialie Jublin

The End of Higher Education's Golden Age - Clay Shirky - 0 views

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  • Aurialie Jublin on 31 Jan 14
     
    Pour Clay Shirky, quand on parle d'études supérieures, on parle souvent de l'école des élites. Or, ce n'est pas la réalité de l'enseignement supérieur américain. La plupart des étudiants sont inscrits dans une école de banlieue, pas pour accumuler des connaissances, mais pour acquérir une formation et un certificat d'employabilité. Un sur trois ne finira pas ses études et deux sur trois finiront endettés par celles-ci. L'enjeu est donc bien d'améliorer la qualité de l'éducation sans en augmenter le prix, de parier sur une éducation à faible coût et à grande échelle.
Aurialie Jublin

How to Get a Job at Google - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • “There are five hiring attributes we have across the company,” explained Bock. “If it’s a technical role, we assess your coding ability, and half the roles in the company are technical roles. For every job, though, the No. 1 thing we look for is general cognitive ability, and it’s not I.Q. It’s learning ability. It’s the ability to process on the fly. It’s the ability to pull together disparate bits of information. We assess that using structured behavioral interviews that we validate to make sure they’re predictive.”
  • The second, he added, “is leadership — in particular emergent leadership as opposed to traditional leadership.
  • What else? Humility and ownership. “It’s feeling the sense of responsibility, the sense of ownership, to step in,” he said, to try to solve any problem — and the humility to step back and embrace the better ideas of others. “Your end goal,” explained Bock, “is what can we do together to problem-solve.
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  • The least important attribute they look for is “expertise.” Said Bock: “If you take somebody who has high cognitive ability, is innately curious, willing to learn and has emergent leadership skills, and you hire them as an H.R. person or finance person, and they have no content knowledge, and you compare them with someone who’s been doing just one thing and is a world expert, the expert will go: ‘I’ve seen this 100 times before; here’s what you do.’ ” Most of the time the nonexpert will come up with the same answer, added Bock, “because most of the time it’s not that hard.”
  • Aurialie Jublin on 26 Feb 14
     
    Pas forcément besoin de diplôme "LAST June, in an interview with Adam Bryant of The Times, Laszlo Bock, the senior vice president of people operations for Google - i.e., the guy in charge of hiring for one of the world's most successful companies - noted that Google had determined that "G.P.A.'s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. ... We found that they don't predict anything." He also noted that the "proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time" - now as high as 14 percent on some teams. At a time when many people are asking, "How's my kid gonna get a job?" I thought it would be useful to visit Google and hear how Bock would answer."
Aurialie Jublin

Neelie Kroes: « L'absence de compétences numériques est une nouvelle forme d'... - 2 views

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  • Aurialie Jublin on 04 Apr 14
     
    "La Commission européenne lance un réseau de MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses, des cours en ligne ouvert, ndlr) afin de permettre aux citoyens européens de se former aux compétences numériques dont les entreprises européennes ont besoin. L'ensemble des formations offertes est d'ores et déjà disponible sur le site Iversity qui sera géré par p.a.u. Education, une entreprise privée spécialisée dans les services pour l'enseignement. «D'ici 2020 - autant dire demain - 90 % des emplois nécessiteront des compétences numériques, et nous ne sommes pas prêts. Déjà, les entreprises européennes manquent de travailleurs qualifiés dans le domaine des technologies de l'information. Nous devons remédier à cette situation, et le réseau que nous lançons nous aidera à déterminer où se situent les lacunes » explique Neelie Kroes, vice-présidente de la Commission européenne chargée de la stratégie numérique."
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
Thierry Nabeth

There Is No Excuse for How Universities Treat Adjuncts -- The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • Thierry Nabeth on 23 Jan 16
     
    In 1969, almost 80 percent of college faculty members were tenure or tenure track. Today, the numbers have essentially flipped, with two-thirds of faculty now non-tenure and half of those working only part-time, often with several different teaching jobs. But apart from feeling sorry for the underpaid faculty, why should we care that college professors have the same job conditions as day laborers, fast-food workers, cashiers, taxi drivers, or home-care aides? They did, after all, choose to pursue a career in higher ed. Administrators at these institutions of higher learning argue that they need to use adjuncts because it is the only way to keep tuition from rising even faster than it has. And isn't access to education the higher good?
Aurialie Jublin

15 companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree - 0 views

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  • In 2017, IBM's vice president of talent Joanna Daley told CNBC Make It that about 15 percent of her company's U.S. hires don't have a four-year degree. She said that instead of looking exclusively at candidates who went to college, IBM now looks at candidates who have hands-on experience via a coding boot camp or an industry-related vocational class.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 23 Aug 18
     
    "The economy continues to be a friendly place for job seekers today, and not just for the ultra-educated - economists are predicting ever-improving prospects for workers without a degree as well."
Aurialie Jublin

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tictravail travail catégorie compétence

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  • Another factor in the changing nature of work is the changing perception of value. In the creative economy, more value is coming from intangible assets than tangible ones.
  • Learning to better deal with intangibles is the next challenge for today’s organizations and workers. I developed the following graphic to describe the four job types in relation to 1) work competencies and 2) economic value. It appears that an economy that creates more intangible value will require a greater percentage of Thinkers and Builders.
  • As we move into a post-job economy, the difference between labour and talent will become more distinct. Producers and Improvers will continue to get automated, at the speed of Moore’s law. Those lacking enough ‘Talent’ competencies may get marginalized. I think there will be increasing pressure to become ‘Thinkers + Builders’, similar to what  Cory Doctorow describes as Makers in his fictional book about the near future.
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  • What is relatively certain is that ‘Labour’ competencies, which most education and training still focuses on, will have diminishing value. How individuals can improve their Thinking and Building competence should be the focus of anyone’s professional development plan. How organizations can support Thinking and Building should be the focus of Organizational Development and Human Resources departments. While Producing and Improving will not go away, they are not where most economic value will be generated in the Network Era.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 27 May 13
     
    En partant des 4 types de travail définis par Lou Adler (Thinker, Builder, Improver, Producer), des compétences définies par Gary Hamel (obedience, diligence, intellect pour l'économie industrielle et de la information; initiative, créativité et passin pour l'économie créative), Harold Jarche essaie de définir le futur du travail 
Thierry Nabeth

EUWIN Conference in Brussels, 10th of October 2016 - 2 views

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tictravail travail

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  • Thierry Nabeth on 12 Sep 16
     
    On 10th of October 2016, the European Workplace Innovation Network, EUWIN will show in Brussels the results of four years of work. Be sure to participate in this event! The European Commission launched EUWIN as a part of the wider industrial strategy. What have we achieved?
  • Thierry Nabeth on 12 Sep 16
     
    Extrait du programme: How they did it? Best European companies showcase why workplace innovation matters, moderation: prof. dr. Steven Dhondt * Avila Business Centers - Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal * BAe Systems - Steven Clark, UK * Bombardier - Edwin van Vlierberghe, Belgium * Cocoon Projects - Jacopo Romei, Italy Future of work - TED-style presentations presenting new big trends * Platform economy & future of work - Chris Warhurst * No hierarchy organisations - Fokke Wijnstra * Matthew Taylor What needs to change? Panel discussion on main factors shaping innovative workplaces, moderation: prof. dr. Peter Totterdill * legislation: Stefan Olsson, Director DG EMPL * education: Henrik Kock, professor at HELIX * partnership: Clare Alexander, Scottish Enterprise * business ecosystem: Sławomir Tokarski, Director, DG GROW
Aurialie Jublin

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  • Et d'autant que les données LinkedIn serviront, notamment, à améliorer les technos et applications "d'intelligence artificielle" (Deep Learning) de Microsoft. On peut donc aisément imaginer dans un futur proche des scénarios assez triviaux où le dialogue avec cette "IA" s'enrichira d'un nouvel horizon dialogique qui lui permettra de vous signaler différents événements professionnels et de vous faire toute une série de propositions de mutation, de nouveaux contacts, etc., mais également des scénarios plus "élaborés" dans lesquels ce même assistant intelligent piloté par une IA gèrera en temps-réel la totalité de votre "carrière"
  • Cerise sur la gâteau, en complément des avantages que confère de facto cette acquisition à Microsoft, elle est également le cheval de Troie idéal lui permettant d'établir un pont avec les politiques publiques (ou privées) de formation : la plupart des néo-inscrits sur LinkedIn le sont dès leurs études universitaires. Je vous laisse alors imaginer ce monde dans lequel, en plus des accords passés avec Cisco (et avec Microsoft) par le ministère de l'éducation nationale, le même Microsoft (et ses partenaires privés) auront alors la capacité de réguler les choix d'étude et de formation professionnelle de la plupart des futurs travailleurs.
  • La "valeur" de la base LinkedIn est liée à trois facteurs essentiels. D'abord sa volumétrie : il s'agit du site rassemblant le plus d'informations sur le plus grand nombre de travailleurs sur la planète (400 millions d'utilisateurs). Ensuite son positionnement : c'est le site leader sur le secteur de l'employabilité et de la mobilité professionnelle. Enfin sa dimension "relationnelle", au sens premier et informatique de ce que l'on appelle une "base de donnée relationnelle", c'est à dire la capacité d'offrir différents niveaux de navigation, de croisement et d'analyse parmi l'ensemble des données structurées présentes dans la base.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 14 Jun 16
     
    "A l'évidence, les algorithmes sont amenés à jouer très rapidement un rôle absolument crucial sur le marché du travail. A l'évidence il existe un certain nombre de problèmes (de formation, d'affectation, de suivi de carrière, de disponibilité) qu'un algorithme dans toute sa candeur statistique et sa robustesse mathématique est capable de traiter plus rapidement et plus efficacement que des opérateurs humains. Donc oui demain des algorithmes joueront le rôle de conseillers pôle-emploi. D'autant que ce rachat de LinkedIn par Microsoft va nécessairement et presque mécaniquement entraîner une réaction des autres GAFAM, notamment de Google."
Aurialie Jublin

The future of jobs: The onrushing wave | The Economist - 1 views

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  • The machines are not just cleverer, they also have access to far more data. The combination of big data and smart machines will take over some occupations wholesale; in others it will allow firms to do more with fewer workers. Text-mining programs will displace professional jobs in legal services. Biopsies will be analysed more efficiently by image-processing software than lab technicians. Accountants may follow travel agents and tellers into the unemployment line as tax software improves. Machines are already turning basic sports results and financial data into good-enough news stories.
  • There will still be jobs. Even Mr Frey and Mr Osborne, whose research speaks of 47% of job categories being open to automation within two decades, accept that some jobs—especially those currently associated with high levels of education and high wages—will survive (see table). Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason University and a much-read blogger, writes in his most recent book, “Average is Over”, that rich economies seem to be bifurcating into a small group of workers with skills highly complementary with machine intelligence, for whom he has high hopes, and the rest, for whom not so much.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 17 Jan 14
     
    "Previous technological innovation has always delivered more long-run employment, not less. But things can change"
Thierry Nabeth

The STEM Crisis Is a Myth -- IEEE Spectrum - 0 views

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  • Thierry Nabeth on 03 Sep 13
     
    Forget the dire predictions of a looming shortfall of scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians
Aurialie Jublin

Compétences des employés : pourquoi la France est avant-dernière - Le nouvel ... - 1 views

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  • L’étude mesure la compréhension du monde qui nous entoure. Classée avant dernière, les Français apparaissent donc comme des employés peu débrouillards – cela entre dans la suite logique d’un classement Pisa assez moyen (la France est en milieu de tableau). Les Japonais sont en première position de l’étude Piacc.
  • Cet indicateur, qui me semble très fiable, montre que les gens sortent du système éducatif sans avoir les bases fondamentales. On empile les années d’université sur des jeunes sans bases. J’enseigne en master d’économie à la Sorbonne : la grande majorité des copies sont sans structure. Les étudiants écrivent des discours gluants sans conclusion ni idée forte. Deux pages de texte et je suis incapable de savoir ce que mon étudiant a voulu dire. »
  •  Ce que je pense, sans l’avoir démontré, c’est que tout part de là : la France n’investit pas dans du capital sophistiqué, elle n’achète pas de robots parce qu’elle n’a pas les compétences pour les utiliser. Une bonne vieille machine outils, oui. Mais pas plus, les Français ne sauraient pas s’en servir. Cela explique pourquoi la France achète six fois moins de robots que l’Allemagne et pourquoi elle investit dans des biens d’équipement simples. Et tout part de là, c’est le début de la chaîne : cela empêche les entreprises françaises de faire des marges importantes et de rendre l’investissement attractif. Quand une multinationale va mettre en compétition ses filiales pour un appel d’offre (ces flux représentent une grande partie du commerce extérieur), la France ne sera pas choisie. »
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  • Piacc révèle deux autres choses inquiétantes : il y a en France deux énormes fractures. Une générationnelle (les jeunes ont des résultats bien meilleurs que les plus vieux) et une autre socio-économique (les inégalités sont bien plus importantes qu’ailleurs). Les plus vieux et les plus défavorisés font lourdement chuter la France dans le classement.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 18 Feb 14
     
    "« Contrairement à ce que l'on pense, la France ne dispose pas d'une main-d'œuvre particulièrement compétente. Peu connu, le classement Piacc de l'OCDE [Programme pour l'évaluation internationale des compétences des adultes], qui évalue la compétence des personnes en activité âgées de 30 à 50 ans, place la France avant-dernière sur 34 pays. Lorsque les multinationales doivent arbitrer entre leurs différentes filiales pour localiser de nouvelles activités, soit l'essentiel des implantations aujourd'hui, cela ne plaide pas pour la France. »"
Thierry Nabeth

Meet the New Face of Diversity: The "Slacker" Millennial Guy -- HBR blog - 0 views

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  • Thierry Nabeth on 15 Oct 13
     
    An important new study by Youngjoo Cha and Kim A. Weeden reports that the wage premium for "overwork"-working more than 50 hours a week-has risen sharply. In 1979, there was actually a wage penalty for overwork; but this turned into a wage premium after the mid-1990s. Because men tend to overwork more than women, the rising overwork premium raised men's wages more than women's, and has effectively erased the advantage women gained by increasing their higher education levels.
  • Thierry Nabeth on 15 Oct 13
     
    This mindset, created by the peculiar demography of upper-level management, is increasingly out of sync with most of the workforce. Younger men increasingly want schedules that work around family needs - just as women have been demanding for years.
Aurialie Jublin

In the Sharing Economy, Workers Find Both Freedom and Uncertainty - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • In a climate of continuing high unemployment, however, people like Ms. Guidry are less microentrepreneurs than microearners. They often work seven-day weeks, trying to assemble a living wage from a series of one-off gigs. They have little recourse when the services for which they are on call change their business models or pay rates. To reduce the risks, many workers toggle among multiple services.
  • Certainly, it’s a good deal for consumers. Peer marketplaces democratize luxury services by making amateur chauffeurs, chefs and personal assistants available to perform occasional work once largely dominated by full-time professionals. Venture capital firms seem convinced.
  • In July, 9.7 million Americans were unemployed, and an additional 7.5 million were working part-time jobs because they could not find full-time work, according to estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.There are no definitive statistics on how many people work in the gig economy. But according to a report from MBO Partners, a company that provides consulting services to independent contractors, about 17.7 million Americans last year worked more than half time as independent contributors, among them project workers.
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  • Jamie Viggiano, senior director of marketing at TaskRabbit, says the company is trying to improve the situation for its 30,000 contractors in 19 cities in the United States. It recently instituted a sitewide minimum wage of $15 an hour. It also adopted a $1 million insurance policy, covering both clients and contractors, for any property damage or bodily harm that occurs while performing a job. Still, Ms. Viggiano says that “across the industry, we have only scratched the surface of helping freelancers work in the gig economy.”
  • Technology has made online marketplaces possible, creating new opportunities to monetize labor and goods. But some economists say the short-term gig services may erode work compensation in the long term. Mr. Baker, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, argues that online labor marketplaces are able to drive down costs for consumers by having it both ways: behaving as de facto employers without shouldering the actual cost burdens or liabilities of employing workers.
  • Labor activists say gig enterprises may also end up disempowering workers, degrading their access to fair employment conditions.“These are not jobs, jobs that have any future, jobs that have the possibility of upgrading; this is contingent, arbitrary work,” says Stanley Aronowitz, director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. “It might as well be called wage slavery in which all the cards are held, mediated by technology, by the employer, whether it is the intermediary company or the customer.”
  • TaskRabbit has started offering its contractors access to discounted health insurance and accounting services. Lyft has formed a partnership with Freelancers Union, making its drivers eligible for the advocacy group’s health plan and other benefit programs.That may not be enough. Dr. Standing, the labor economist, says workers need formal protections to address the power asymmetries inherent in contingent work. International rules, he says, could endow gig workers with basic entitlements — like the right to organize and the right to due process should companies seek to remove them from their platforms.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 18 Aug 14
     
    Le business de la "sharing economy", c'est encore beaucoup la précarité des "employés".
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