by dankeelan | Dec 7, 2021 | Featured, Gig Workers, Unions
On October 16, an unknown number of drivers for grocery delivery service Instacart went on strike. These shoppers, as Instacart calls its independent contractors, vowed to forgo logging onto the app that provides their dispatches. Other drivers who couldn’t afford to...
by dankeelan | Dec 7, 2021 | Featured, Future of Work
When people talk about the future of work they usually talk about how machines and automation will impact the workforce. But there’s a different, more holistic conversation also evolving: the idea that the future of work should be good for workers, and not just good...
by dankeelan | Dec 7, 2021 | Book Review, Featured, Future of Work
“Will we be retired — or unemployed?” the leader of a futurist conference asked in 2007 while envisioning a world filled with AIs possessed of superhuman intelligence. More recent — and more restrained — researchers such as Kate...
by dankeelan | Dec 7, 2021 | Featured, Future of Work
DoorDash is jumping on the speedy delivery trend. Starting Monday, the company is offering 10- to 15-minute delivery in New York City from a new Dashmart, which stocks groceries, household goods and packaged restaurant products. Customers within the delivery zone will...
by dankeelan | Nov 30, 2021 | Featured, Mentoring, Stories
In September 2020, we were all involved in the undergraduate psychology programme at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada (P.W., P.V. and R.P. as final-year students pursuing an honours degree, E.C. as an instructor and A.R. as a graduate student). In any other...
by dankeelan | Nov 30, 2021 | Featured, Leadership
I volunteered for the Marine Corps right out of high school. I served for two and a half years until a training injury led to my medical discharge. While that was not the way I intended for my military career to end, I picked up many valuable leadership skills in my...
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