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The German government will soon publish a draft law that would legally enforce workers' right to stay home and do their job remotely.

Empty Office

Say goodbye to the office.

Germany Wants to Make Remote Work a Legal Right

Google fired a fifth employee who had been trying to organize the comapny's workforce, though the tech giant denies that was the root issue.

Growing Trend

Kathryn Spiers distributed educational tools about labor rights.

Google Reportedly Fires Fifth Worker For Organizing Unionization

Future studies researcher Roey Tzezana says workplace automation will mean the destruction of the middle class and the "end of the world as we know it."

Hollowing Out

"This figure is the end of the world for the average people."

Futurist Predicts “The End of the World as We Know It”

Self-driving car companies are benefitting from cheap Venezuelan labor as they compile mountains of annotated training data for their AI.

AI Exploitation

People in Venezuela are annotating the endless training data for vehicles' AI.

Self-Driving Car Companies Depend on Cheap Labor From Venezuela

An investigation reveals that schoolchildren in China are working illegal hours to manufacture Amazon Echo products as part of a school internship.

Anything For Margins

Chinese schoolchildren are working overnight shifts for Foxconn.

Foxconn Used Child Labor to Manufacture Amazon Alexa Gadgets

Amazon's AI automatically tracked and fired hundreds of fulfillment center employees for failing to meet productivity quotas.

AI Boss

It's a grim glimpse of a future in which AI is your boss — and you're disposable.

Amazon Used An AI to Automatically Fire Low-Productivity Workers

A Finnish startup called Vainu relies on prison labor to train its AI algorithms, arguing that labeling training data is giving inmates valuable skills.

Cheap As Free

"Hey, we could actually use prison labor."

A Finnish Startup Is Using Prison Labor to Train AI

Anonymous contractors at Apple's so-called "black site," a low-key office for Apple Maps development, described grim working conditions.