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  • Thierry Nabeth on 18 Jul 13
     
    The development of Internet technology has facilitated the emergence of online marketplace for various kinds of tasks (e.g., Amazon's Mechanical Turk in USA and Taskcn.com in China). Although the payment is relatively low, numerous people participate in the tasks in these online marketplaces. Sun, Y., Wang, N., & Peng, Z. (2011). Working for one penny: Understanding why people would like to participate in online tasks with low payment. Computers in Human Behavior, 27(2), 1033-1041.
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An Instant Path to an Online Army (Amazon's Mechanical Turk) - 0 views

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work Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing

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  • Thierry Nabeth on 22 Apr 13
     
    IT'S been true for a while that if you need to transcribe an audio recording, find contact information for a company, summarize an article, or perform any number of routine tasks, an anonymous online worker can do the job for a small payment. Amazon's Mechanical Turk, for example, recently listed 230,000 available microtasks.
Aurialie Jublin

​The Future of Robot Labor Is the Future of Capitalism | Motherboard - 0 views

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robot tictravail travail future

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  • According to Marx, automation that displaces workers in favour of machines that can produce more goods in less time is part and parcel of how capitalism operates. By developing fixed capital (machines), bosses can do away with much of the variable capital (workers) that saps their bottom line with pesky things like wages and short work days.
  • Capital itself is the moving contradiction, [in] that it presses to reduce labour time to a minimum, while it posits labour time, on the other side, as sole measure and source of wealth.
  • In Marxist theory, capitalists create profit by extracting what’s called surplus value from workers—paying them less than what their time is worth and gaining the difference as profit after the commodity has been sold at market price, arrived at by metrics abstracted from the act of labour itself. So what happens when humans aren’t the ones working anymore? Curiously, Marx finds himself among the contemporary robotic utopianists in this regard. Once robots take over society’s productive forces, people will have more free time than ever before, which will “redound to the benefit of emancipated labour, and is the condition of its emancipation,” Marx wrote. Humans, once freed from the bonds of soul-crushing capitalist labour, will develop new means of social thought and cooperation outside of the wage relation that frames most of our interactions under capitalism. In short, Marx claimed that automation would bring about the end of capitalism
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  • “Not immediately productive” is the key phrase here. Just think of all the forms of work that have popped up since automation began to really take hold during the Industrial Revolution: service sector work, online work, part-time and otherwise low-paid work. You’re not producing anything while working haphazard hours as a cashier at Walmart, but you are creating value by selling what has already been built, often by machines. In the automated world, precarious labour reigns. Jobs that offer no stability, no satisfaction, no acceptable standard of living, and seem to take up all of our time by occupying so many scattered parcels of it are the norm.
  • A radically different form of work is that of providing personal data for profit. This online data work is particularly insidious for two main reasons. First, because it is often not recognized as work at all. You might not think that messaging a pal about your new pair of headphones is work, but labour theorists like Maurizio Lazzarato disagree. Second, because workers are completely cut out of the data profit loop, although that may be changing.
  • Some people are already working toward this. The basic income movement, which calls for a minimum salary to be paid out to every living human regardless of employment status, is a good start, because it implies a significant departure from the purely economic language of austerity in political thought and argues for a basic income for the salient reason that we’re human and we deserve to live. However, if we really want to change the way things are headed, more will be needed.
Aurialie Jublin

Case Study: Fairmondo - Commons Transition Primer - 0 views

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plateforme coopérativisme de plateforme coopérative commerce équitable commun

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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."
Aurialie Jublin

Comment changer le fonctionnement des entreprises - Francis Pisani - 0 views

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travail entreprise innovation management

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  • Pour Dignan :« Les entreprises qui ont le plus d’impact et qui croissent le plus vite aujourd'hui utilisent un modèle d'exploitation complètement différent [du modèle hiérarchique]. »« Ce sont des machines à apprendre "maigres et méchantes" (lean and mean). »« Elles ont un parti pris intense en faveur de l'action et une réelle tolérance du risque, qui se manifeste dans l'expérimentation fréquente et l'implacable itération des produits. »« Elles bidouillent (hack) produits et services, les testent et les améliorent pendant que leurs compétiteurs qui fonctionnent comme hier (legacy competition) affinent leur PowerPoints. »
  • Aurialie Jublin on 25 Feb 14
     
    "Mais alors comment faut-il s'organiser ? Dignan propose différents modèles inspirés de sociétés à succès : Zappos (qui vend des chaussures et des vêtements online), Spotify qui a bouleversé la consommation de la musique et Valve, une productrice de jeux. Avec des variations, elles ont en commun de : - Chercher à distribuer autorité et autonomie en les confiant aux individus et aux équipes. - Elles permettent que la nature changeante du travail […] ait un impact sur la structure des rôles et des équipes. - Elles valorisent la transparence et la communication fluide. - Elles permettent aux individus de travailler dans plusieurs groupes. - Elles réduisent le rôle de la direction aux problèmes de stratégies exigeant une vue d'ensemble et laissent tous les autres se résoudre à la marge."
Aurialie Jublin

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

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compétence numériques travail MOOC europe

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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."
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Aurialie Jublin

Amazon Is Building An App To Let Normal People Deliver Packages For Pay - 0 views

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digital labor réseau amazon

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  • Aurialie Jublin on 16 Jun 15
     
    Amazon is apparently enlisting everyday humans in its network of endless online shopping delivery. The WSJ reports that the ecommerce giant is working on an app internally that would allow the average consumer to make a little cash by picking up Amazon packages at various retail locations and dropping them off at their final destination.
Aurialie Jublin

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

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travail tictravail précarité économie collaborative liberté

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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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The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed | WIRED - 0 views

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digital labor bullshit job

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  • Aurialie Jublin on 29 Oct 14
     
    "So companies like Facebook and Twitter rely on an army of workers employed to soak up the worst of humanity in order to protect the rest of us. And there are legions of them-a vast, invisible pool of human labor. Hemanshu Nigam, the former chief security officer of MySpace who now runs online safety consultancy SSP Blue, estimates that the number of content moderators scrubbing the world's social media sites, mobile apps, and cloud storage services runs to "well over 100,000"-that is, about twice the total head count of Google and nearly 14 times that of Facebook."
Aurialie Jublin

The Gig Economy Isn't Just For Startups Anymore - 0 views

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gig economy plateforme

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  • Aurialie Jublin on 04 Sep 17
     
    Gig workers are coming to some of the world's largest corporations too. Increasingly Fortune 500 companies and global giants like Samsung are turning to online freelancing platforms like Upwork and PeoplePerHour to find designers, marketing staff, IT specialists and other knowledge workers.
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le travail quantifié par des capteurs - 0 views

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tictravail travail capteurs surveillance privacy

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  • anonymous on 12 Mar 13
     
    un bon article du WSJ sur une forme d'instrumentation du big data dans les lieux de travail... avec une forme euphémisée de surveillance des salariés
Aurialie Jublin

L'emploi à l'épreuve des algorithmes « InternetActu.net - 1 views

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tictravail travail algorithme bigdata data recrutement emploi big data

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  • L’analyse des e-mails, des messageries instantanées, des appels téléphoniques, du moindre clic de souris des employés peut désormais être mise au service d’une plus grande efficacité de l’entreprise. Les données produites par les travailleurs sont en passe de devenir un atout précieux.
  • département People Analysis (“l’analyse des gens”), le laboratoire des ressources humaines de Google. Depuis 2007, Google a mené des enquêtes approfondies sur ses équipes et a constaté que les employés les plus innovants sont ceux qui ont un fort sens de leur mission tout en ayant une large autonomie personnelle. “Nos décisions sur nos employés ne sont pas moins importantes que nos décisions sur nos produits”,
  • Gild est une start-up qui ambitionne de révolutionner le recrutement de développeur par les Big Data. Parmi les principaux indicateurs pris en compte par la société, l’évaluation par les pairs des développeurs sur des sites de programmation communautaires comme Google Code, Github ou Bitbucket : le code proposé par le développeur est-il apprécié, réutilisé ? Comment communique-t-il ses idées ? Que dit-on de lui dans les réseaux sociaux ?…
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  • Recruiter permet ni plus ni moins d’espionner les profils que le recruteur consulte, de les ajouter à des listes de candidats potentiels, d’entrer en contact avec les anciens employeurs ou d’être tenu au courant de qui s’attarde sur le profil d’un candidat, et ce…, sans que les utilisateurs eux-mêmes ne le sachent ! L’algorithme mis en place se base sur les actions du recruteur et se complexifie à mesure que l’employeur l’utilise, notamment en recommandant des utilisateurs à la formation et aux compétences similaires de ceux mis en sélection.
  • En fait, ce qui paraît le plus gênant dans ce système, c’est bien l’asymétrie de service, c’est-à-dire que les usagers ne sont pas sur un pied d’égalité. Que les recruteurs aient des outils dédiés pour se faciliter la tâche, certes. Mais que le candidat n’ait pas accès dans le détail à qui consulte son profil ne peut que générer une tension, un déséquilibre…
  • Mais ce n’est pas la seule société à utiliser de nouveaux types de capteurs pour mesurer la productivité des employés, explique Rachel Emma Silverman pour le Wall Street Journal. La Bank of America a ainsi équipé 90 de ses employés des badges développés par Sociometrics Solutions (dont nous parlions déjà ici et là). Le but : étudier les mouvements et les interactions des employés afin de comprendre la façon dont ils travaillent et interagissent.
  • Pour Dancy, bientôt, les entreprises vont commencer à mesurer leurs employés de la même façon qu’il se mesure lui-même. Nous n’aurons pas le choix, constate-t-il, fataliste. “Les entreprises ont besoin de nouvelles mesures pour saisir la productivité des travailleurs de la connaissance.” Même si les travailleurs rejettent la surveillance orwellienne de leurs employeurs, les travailleurs individuels seront contraints d’utiliser l’autosuivi pour acquérir un avantage concurrentiel sur les autres.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 27 May 13
     
    L'analyse des grandes quantités de données - le Big Data - est appelée à révolutionner bien des domaines. L'emploi et les ressources humaines pourraient même devenir l'un de ses premiers terrains d'application. La preuve avec quelques résultats d'études menées dans différentes entreprises et différents secteurs.
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The new artisans of the network era | Harold Jarche - 0 views

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tictravail travail compétence

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  • Knowledge artisans are amplified versions of their pre-industrial counterparts. Augmented by technology, they rely on their networks and skills to solve complex problems and test new ideas. Small groups of highly productive knowledge artisans are capable of producing goods and services that used to take much larger teams and resources. In addition to redefining how work is done, knowledge artisans are creating new organizational structures and business models, such as virtual companies, crowd-sourced product development, and alternative currencies.
  • Knowledge artisans are often more contractual, more independent and shorter-term than previous information age employees. Because of their more nomadic nature, artisanal workers will bring their own learning networks. Companies will need to accept this in order to get work done. Also, training departments must be ready to adapt to knowledge artisans by allowing them to  collaborate and connect with their external online networks.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 27 May 13
     
    Are knowledge workers the new artisans of the network era? If so, can you call yourself a knowledge worker if you are not allowed to choose your own tools? How about managing your own learning?
Aurialie Jublin

L'adoption des RSE et plateformes collaboratives progresse lentement - Entreprise20.fr - 1 views

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rse entreprise réseau

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      Résultat de l'étude "évolution de la networked enterprise" : Si l'adoption de certaines technologies et fonctionnalités liées à la networked enterprise sont en hausse régulière, la tendance générale est plutôt à la stagnation ;  - Les bénéfices ressentis au sujet de ces nouveaux outils ou nouvelles pratiques sont plutôt mitigés (surtout liés à la réduction des coûts de communication ou de voyage) ; - Des préoccupations qui se déportent vers des sujets très techniques (accès mobile, sécurisation des données dans les nuages, big data…).
  • Même son de cloche avec l’étude 2013 sur la Social Collaboration en Allemagne, en France et au Royaume-Uni de PA Consultants. On y apprend que les entreprises allemandes et anglaises ont une approche pragmatique centrée sur l’efficacité ou la recherche de rapidité, alors que les entreprises françaises cherchent à améliorer la motivation, l’implication… mais comme ces derniers bénéficient d’un faible niveau d’autonomie, les résultats ne sont pas forcément au rendez-vous
  • Le principal enseignement de cette étude est que des solutions sont déployées, probablement dû à un bon travail d’évangélisation des éditeurs, mais que l’intégration aux outils du quotidien reste à faire. En d’autres termes : on colle des rustines pour faire bonne figure, mais les habitudes ne changent pas forcément à cause d’un déficit de volonté de changement.
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  • Comme pour les études précédentes, si les entreprises se targuent d’un déploiement de solutions modernes (RSE, accès mobile…), elles sont beaucoup moins volontaires pour initier une mutation en profondeur des habitudes de travail. Ce qui manque le plus, comme le démontre ces études, est la mise en place d’une réelle dynamique de changement où la direction et le middle management expliquent, stimulent et participent de façon active à la transformation des outils et processus métiers.
  • julien camacho on 20 Jun 13
     
    Un article de synthèse de quatre études sur l'adoption des RSE et plateformes collaboratives parues récemment.
Aurialie Jublin

Need Help With Work? Startup RelateIQ Aims to Improve Work Relationships - WSJ.com - 1 views

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tictravail travail algorithme service donnée

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  • Data scientists are beginning to peer into work relationships, trying to identify patterns that can improve how employees collaborate with peers, manage sales relationships, or see how they stack up against colleagues. It is a nascent market, but up-and-coming startups have their eyes set on upending established business-technology companies like Salesforce, which are also increasingly digging into data.
  • Elsewhere, Boston-based Sociometric Solutions Inc. uses physical sensors to collect data on employees' movements and the tone of their conversations to tell managers where interactions are dipping and where employees are congregating. In San Francisco, tenXer Inc., a program for computer engineers, tracks code modifications and hours spent in meetings to help them see how their productivity stacks up against colleagues. And Boston-based Yesware Inc. helps employees track emails, monitors how many times their emails are opened, what devices recipients are using, and provides analytic reports on the email traffic of colleagues.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 20 Jun 13
     
    Startups Like RelateIQ Are Aiming to Help Improve Employees' Work Life With Software Résumé IA : RelatelQ - https://www.relateiq.com - est un logiciel qui se propose de regarder votre vie numérique pour vous en faire ressortir ce qui semble important. L'algorithme de RelateIQ recueille constamment des signaux de données pour déterminer si les relations de travail avec des partenaires internes ou externes se refroidissent et si l'utilisateur doit prendre des mesures. Sociometric Solutions utilise une méthode proche pour améliorer les conversations. tenXer - https://www.tenxer.com - gère les modifications de code et les heures passées en réunion pour aider à mieux maîtriser sa productivité. Yesware - http://www.yesware.com - tente d'améliorer la productivité par e-mail. Chez RelateIQ, les programmeurs tentent de toujours mieux cerner les tendances, comme le temps moyen qu'il faut pour qu'une personne puisse répondre et quels types de ponctuation et de phrases provoquent généralement des réponses. Ils tentent également de détecter le sarcasme et les mots qui sont habituellement associées à des questions importantes. Ces données peuvent révéler, par exemple, si une relation stagne ou progresse. Reste que dans des environnements de communication très complexe, le défi de ces outils est également complexe. L'apprentissage machine peut provoquer des erreurs, des mauvaises interprétations, des recommandations qui semblent venir de nulle part. Promesse ou illusion ?
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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."
Thierry Nabeth

The Workplace of the Future @ Educa Berlin 2013 - 3 views

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Workplace travail

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  • Thierry Nabeth on 18 Nov 13
     
    Social media, mobile devices, gamification, MOOCs: what #OEB13's upcoming keynote speaker Jeanne Meister thinks about the workplace of the future.
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