by dankeelan | Feb 27, 2020 | Featured, Technology
Guns and bullets. Bulletproof vests. Nail salon excursions, jewelry and hangover kits. These are among the expenses employees bill to their companies, according to AppZen, a provider of financial software. You’ve got to hand it to them, employees are certainly...
by dankeelan | Feb 27, 2020 | Featured, Future of Work, Technology
In a test kitchen in a corner building in downtown Pasadena, Flippy the robot grabbed a fryer basket full of chicken fingers, plunged it into hot oil — its sensors told it exactly how hot — then lifted, drained and dumped maximally tender tenders into a waiting...
by dankeelan | Feb 21, 2020 | Featured, Gig Workers
Vanessa Bain, a well-known gig worker-activist, has teamed up with fellow gig worker-activist Sarah Clarke (pseudonym) to form the Gig Workers Collective. It’s early days for the organization, which is a pending 501(c)(3) organization, but its ambitions are big. “We...
by dankeelan | Feb 20, 2020 | Featured, Future of Work, Remote Work
t’s 2020: we finally live in the future! Or at least a future—one where broadband Internet connections and portable, reasonably high-powered computing tools are pervasive and widely accessible, even if they aren’t yet universal. Millions of...
by dankeelan | Feb 20, 2020 | Featured, Future of Work, Gig Workers
Gabriel is a professional transcriber, and for years he earned a middle-class living. In the early 2000s he’d make up to $40 an hour transcribing corporate earnings calls. He’d sit at his desk, “knock it out” for hours using custom keystrokes, and watch...
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