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Workers at Facebook (FB), Tesla (TSLA) and Amazon (AMZN) might as well work at Walmart ... - 1 views

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  • Aurialie Jublin on 30 May 17
     
    "I've seen people pass out, hit the floor like a pancake, and smash their face open," a worker at Tesla's "factory of the future" told the Guardian in a report published this week. "They just send us to work around him while he's still lying on the floor." The Guardian report described long hours and intense pressure to meet CEO Elon Musk's production goals-even if that means enduring or ignoring injuries. Since 2014, according to the report, hundreds of ambulances have been called to the factory to treat workers. This portrayal doesn't quite jive with Musk's world-changing vision. And Tesla isn't only Silicon Valley company facing this type of irony. Technology companies' reputations as employers often stem from how they treat highly paid engineers, but many also employ thousands of blue collar workers. Tech workers at these companies receive high pay, elaborate perks, and progressive workplace policies, but blue collar workers for the same companies often work in circumstances that look much less...
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ISR: Special Issue on Information, Technology, and the Changing Nature of Work - 0 views

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  • Thierry Nabeth on 23 Apr 13
     
    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.)
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Two People Doing The Same Job? It's Not Crazy For Engineers - FastCoLabs - 0 views

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  • It turns out that developers have been working together to complete single tasks for decades, using a practice called “pair programming.” The basic idea is simple: Two developers sit in front of one computer. One programmer “drives,” typing out actual code, while the other observes and guides the driver, catching mistakes, and suggesting high-level strategies for completing the task.
  • Although it might sound counterintuitive and costly to employ two engineers to do one thing, its proponents swear that it actually saves money and time. Michael Kebbekus, a software engineering manager for collaboration software company Mindjet who spends 80% of his time pair programming, says the practice reduces costs and increases innovation by forcing developers to think through their decisions early
  • When you pair program, you have the perspective of a colleague, and every idea is just a starting point for something better. Before you start typing, you verbalize a solution, and in explaining your thoughts out loud you discover aspects of a problem you didn't even consider, and better yet, your partner does, too.
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  • Although he acknowledges that it might not be beneficial to every division for every type of project, Kebbekus believes that everybody should at least try putting people together to work on high-value projects. His advice is to slowly start asking team members to work together on bigger, higher-cost projects and gradually formalize pairing people as they get used to the process.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 22 Jun 13
     
    "Most people would find it absurd to hire two people to do the same job. An increasing number of software companies are doing just that and finding that it increases productivity and reduces costs. Here's how to apply the idea to your business."
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Stop watching your workers - WashingtonPost - 0 views

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  • Bernstein found that when managers were looking, employees in the factory, a global contract manufacturer that produced mobile devices, did everything by the book so as not to call attention to themselves. But when managers weren’t watching, employees used a variety of easier and even safer tricks of their own to keep production humming at an even faster pace. In one study, simply hanging a curtain so that managers couldn’t see workers increased productivity by 10 to 15 percent.
  • When workers have enough autonomy to experiment, fail and share ideas outside the watchful eye of their managers, they could very well develop and perfect tools that make them more productive, not less.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 13 Jan 14
     
    "The paper, which Bernstein titled "The Transparency Paradox," found that productivity actually increased when a group of Chinese manufacturing employees were not being closely watched by their managers."
  • Aurialie Jublin on 12 Mar 14
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Data pioneers watching us work - FT.com - 0 views

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  • Not everyone is convinced that the growing use of technology to monitor workers’ productivity offers an un­equivocal improvement, however. Teresa Amabile, a professor and director of research at Harvard Business School, says it could be “very positive” or “very negative” depending on the existing workplace culture. Monitoring can work if the teams, departments or whole offices using the software or devices have what she calls “a high degree of psychological safety”. If people feel able to experiment, potentially fail and learn from those lessons, then they can be motivated by gaining a better understanding of how they spend their days. But she warned that the technology was still in its early days and could be “too crude” an instrument to rely on. “There is definitely a danger of seeing technology as a silver bullet,” she says.
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Trouver les gens qui ont une vocation plutôt que ceux qui veulent faire carri... - 1 views

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  • hubert guillaud on 31 Mar 14
     
    L'entrepreneur et financier Brooke Allen - http://www.brookeallen.com -, qui a lancé le club Q54 - http://www.q54club.org - recommandait récemment dans les pages de Quartz d'écrire son histoire plutôt qu'un simple CV pour décrocher un job : http://qz.com/192347/to-get-a-job-write-your-story-instead-of-a-resume/ Il y évoquait le fait que ce qui a le plus de valeur est de trouver un but à son travail. Evoquant le livre à paraître de Aaron Hurst "L'économie du but", il explique que les gens les plus motivés ne cherchent ni un travail ni une carrière, mais une vocation. Et que les employeurs devraient surtout se soucier de trouver ces employés là ! Les gens qui cherchent un travail ne cherchent qu'à payer leurs factures. Ceux qui cherchent une carrière se moquent de leur travail. Seul ceux qui cherchent une vocation méritent d'être employés et d'être payés au prix fort.

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Google's Head of HR on Talent Analytics | CEB Blogs - 0 views

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  • Confidentiality means when we collect data on employees, there are at most one or two people in all of Google who could link a name to a particular response—and even those one or two people would have to jump through some hoops to do so. And for every survey we always give the option to participate anonymously.
  • Transparency means we then share the results back and explain to Googlers exactly how they’re going to be used. We have about a 90% participation rate for our annual employee survey, called Googlegeist (The Spirit of Google). And it’s not just the company results which are visible to everyone.For example, on our intranet you can pull down results from the annual survey on my team and on me, and see all the details.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 31 Mar 14
     
    2 principes clés : la confidentialité et la transparence
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What Does A Union Look Like In The Gig Economy? | Fast Company | Business + Innovation - 0 views

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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."
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Apploitation in a city of instaserfs | Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - 0 views

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  • I signed up for as many sharing economy jobs as I could, but they’re not really jobs. I was never an employee; I was a “partner,” or a “hero” or even a “ninja” depending on the app. Sharing economy companies are just middlemen, connecting independent contractors to customers. When I signed up to work with (not for) these apps, I was essentially starting my own ride-sharing/courier business.
  • We do still have a boss. It just isn’t a person. It’s an algorithm.
  • The standard ride-sharing or courier app’s business model looks something like this:  When introducing your app into a new city, take heavy losses by over-paying drivers and under-charging customers. Offer drivers cash bonuses to get their friends to sign up. Once you’ve got a steady supply of drivers invested in the app, start lowering their pay. 
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  • The idea is to reward loyalty and prevent drivers from having Uber and Lyft open at the same time. The thing is, if you’re working 40 or 50 hours a week with one company, that looks a lot less like a gig and a lot more like full-time employment.
  • In Los Angeles, September 2014, a group of Lyft drivers burned their pink mustaches in protest of the pay cuts. These kinds of actions aren’t very common because most of us don’t know our co-workers and there is no physical location to congregate. Lyft doesn’t allow their drivers at the head office. The main place for “sharing economy” workers to connect is through online forums and Facebook groups
  • Yes, people have been kicked off Postmates for complaining. I’ve talked to them. And yes, the official Postmates courier group on Facebook is censored to erase anything that could be perceived as a complaint. But more importantly it’s clear that Postmates is not preparing its workers for the realities of life as an independent contractor. Many are shocked about how much they have to pay in taxes and how little they’re making doing the work. There are plenty of screenshots showing that some are making less than minimum wage.
  • I ended up having to take on all kinds of little expenses like these. It’s part of the risk of starting your own business. That time, I just had to buy a $3 froyo but it can be a lot worse (parking tickets in San Francisco can be over $80). Oftentimes you have to choose between parking illegally or being late with an order.
  • All the risk falls onto the worker and the company is free of liability—despite the placard being an explicit suggestion that it’s okay to break the law if that’s what you’ve got to do to get the order done on time. 
  • Postmates responded by “updating” the app to a “blind system” in which we could still accept or reject jobs, but without enough information to determine whether it would be worth our time or not (e.g., a huge grocery store order). To make sure we accept jobs quickly without analyzing them, the app plays an extremely loud and annoying beeping noise designed specifically to harass couriers into submitting to the algorithm.
  • One of the best companies I worked for is called Washio. I picked up dirty laundry and delivered clean laundry. It was the best paying and least stressful of all the apps I worked with that month because there was no illusion of choice. Washio tells you exactly what to do and you do it. It is simple and honest. But it also betrays the spirit of the independent contractor, and that’s important for a number of reasons.
  • Plenty of people requested that I drop off their food at the door. Customers grow to love apps that make the worker anonymous. That way, you don’t have to feel guilty about having servants.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 24 Aug 16
     
    L'auteur de l'article parle de son expérience du "travail" via l'économie des plateforme.
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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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