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Hundreds of white-collar Amazon workers in Seattle walked off the job, frustrated by job losses, a return-to-office mandate, carbon emissions, and leadership (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post)
Caroline O’Donovan / Washington Post: Hundreds of white-collar Amazon workers in Seattle walked off the job, frustrated by job losses,…
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Amazon Workers Walk Out Over Layoffs and Broken Climate Promises
Workers at Apple have tangled with leadership over the company’s own return-to-office mandate. As at Amazon, a Slack channel devoted to…
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How the Shoggoth, a character from a 1936 H.P. Lovecraft novella, became a meme among AI workers as a metaphor for not fully understanding LLMs' inner workings (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
Kevin Roose / New York Times: How the Shoggoth, a character from a 1936 H.P. Lovecraft novella, became a meme…
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Amazon workers upset over job cuts, return-to-office mandate stage walkout
SEATTLE (AP) — A group of Amazon workers upset about recent layoffs, a return-to-office mandate and the company’s environmental impact…
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Sex Workers Are Still Hot for Twitter Spaces
Not all of this is a surprise. Sex workers were among the first technologists. They were the vanguard of sex-via-tech…
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A survey of 3,000 US workers, an equal number of Boomers, Gen Xers, Millennials, and Gen Zers, finds 85% of them have used AI tools to perform tasks at work (Sara Korolevich/Checkr)
Sara Korolevich / Checkr: A survey of 3,000 US workers, an equal number of Boomers, Gen Xers, Millennials, and Gen…
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Stellantis worker’s idea leads to hazard software
Stellantis has been fostering a culture of innovation through efforts such as Star*Up, an internal competition in which employees around…
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Striking workers overwhelmingly reject tentative agreement at battery supplier for GM, Ford
Workers at a Clarios vehicle battery plant near Toledo voted down a tentative contract agreement by 75.8 percent, a top…
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Michigan Webasto workers vote to join UAW
Workers at a Webasto Roof Systems plant in suburban Detroit voted 99 to 79 to join the UAW Thursday. The…
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Instawork, a marketplace that connects hourly workers with employers, raised a $60M Series D at a valuation of $760M, bringing its total funding to $160M (Emmy Lucas/Forbes)
Emmy Lucas / Forbes: Instawork, a marketplace that connects hourly workers with employers, raised a $60M Series D at a…
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