Tag results for: labor
Microsoft and CWA forge labor neutrality agreement covering all ZeniMax workers
Microsoft and the Communications Workers of America (CWA) have forged a labor neutrality agreement for all ZeniMax workers. The CWA says the deal is similar to the one...
AI Agents Are Coming for Mundane—But Valuable—Office Tasks
For all the bluster about generative artificial intelligence upending the world, the technology has yet to meaningfully transform white-collar work. Workers are dabbling with chatbots for tasks such...
The Low-Paid Humans Behind AI’s Smarts Ask Biden to Free Them From ‘Modern Day Slavery’
AI projects like OpenAI’s ChatGPT get part of their savvy from some of the lowest-paid workers in the tech industry—contractors often in poor countries paid small sums to...
Disney is laying off around 175 Pixar workers as it pulls back on original streaming shows
is losing around 175 of its workers amid a cost-cutting drive. It was reported as far back as January that layoffs were planned for the digital...
Tesla is reportedly laying off more than 10 percent of its workforce
Tesla has joined the litany of companies that have conducted sweeping layoffs in recent times. First reported by Electrek and since corroborated by Reuters the Washington Post and the New...
How Uber and the gig economy changed the way we live and work
Gig work predates the internet. Besides traditional forms of self-employment, like plumbing, offers for ad-hoc services have long been found in the Yellow Pages and newspaper classified ads,...
