by dankeelan | Apr 2, 2020 | Gig Workers
A protester holds a sign at an Amazon building during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the Staten Island borough of New York City, March 30, 2020. (Jeenah Moon/Reuters) A pandemic hasn’t completely suspended the operation of economics in the...
by dankeelan | Apr 2, 2020 | Benefits, Featured, Gig Workers
Self-employed and gig workers may have to wait a little longer than other jobless Americans to get their unemployment benefits. The new coronavirus relief law significantly expanded the financial assistance it gives to out-of-work Americans, partly...
by dankeelan | Apr 2, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Future of Work
Jill Watson has been a teaching assistant (TA) at the Georgia Institute of Technology for five years now, helping students day and night with all manner of course-related inquiries. But for all the hard work she has done, she still can’t qualify for outstanding...
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...
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