Forget the dire predictions of a looming shortfall of scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians

Throughout the years sci-fi has tackled a lot of labor issues. In honor of Labor Day here are some of the best (and worst).

The US is the only developed economy without legally mandated vacations and it's costing us more than just money

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.

FALL RIVER, Wis. - Sara Uttech has not spent much of her career so far worrying about "leaning in." Instead, she has mostly been hanging on, trying to find ways to get her career to accommodate her family life, rather than the other way around.

The Commission is leading a multi-stakeholder partnership to tackle the lack of ICT skills and the several hundred of thousands of unfilled ICT-related vacancies.

He works as a Principal Research Scientist at MIT's Center for Digital Business, which is part of the Sloan School of Management

Kodak employed 140,000 people. Instagram, 13. A digital visionary says the Web kills jobs, wealth -- even democracy

Special Issue on Information, Technology, and the Changing Nature of Work Deadline for Ideas Extended The date for submission of ideas for this special issue has been extended from February 15, 2013, to February 25, 2013. (See the first bullet point under "Process" below.)

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.

BOSSES, as it turns out, really do matter - perhaps far more than even they realize. In telephone call centers, for example, where hourly workers handle a steady stream of calls under demanding conditions, the communication skills and personal warmth of an employee's supervisor are often crucial in determining the employee's tenure and performance.

The first phase of the SEA-SoNS ("Assessing the Benefits of Social Networks on Organizations") project aimed to analyse the current market situation for a limited number of social media stakeholders, to identify and analyse best practices for these selected stakeholders, and to define and prioritise relevant policy options. While social media technologies present several potential benefits to organisations, there are considerable challenges and bottlenecks affecting their adoption that may warrant policy intervention. To accomplish the objective of developing suitable policy options, the project undertook a range of research and data collection activities, including a review of the literature, a scoping workshop, semi-structured interviews, an on-line 'animation' of stakeholders, and a brainstorming workshop. The main results were presented at the Digital Agenda Assembly (DAA) 2012.