labor

Virtual Assistant

This is messed up.

Grocery Chain Using "Cashiers" Paid $3/Hour to Video in From Nicaragua

Amazon is reportedly working on an internal messaging app — and employees working on it have discussed banning a hilarious number of labor-related words.

Free Speech

They even considered banning the word "diversity."

Amazon Discussed Banning the Words "Fairness" and "Pay Raise"

The billionaire said he wouldn't stop the United Auto Workers from holding a vote on whether employees should unionize at one of Tesla's factories.

Factory Check

"I’d like hereby to invite UAW to hold a union vote at their convenience."

Elon Musk Challenges Union to Let Tesla Workers Vote on Whether to Join

Amazon is under fire for its controversial workplace cell phone ban in the wake of a deadly warehouse collapse in Illinois during Friday night's tornado.

Phone It In

"After these deaths, there is no way in hell I am relying on Amazon to keep me safe."

Amazon Under Fire for Workplace Cell Phone Ban After Deadly Warehouse Collapse

Imagine sitting down at your favorite breakfast restaurant only to be greeted by a robot, not a human.

Diner Drama

It's like dining with the Jetsons!

People Furious at Robot Serving Pancakes at Denny's

US Congressman Mark Takano introduced legislation that would chop most Americans' work weeks down to four days instead of five.

Sign Us Up

"Reducing Americans' average work week is a key step towards achieving a better society."

Congressman Proposes Four-Day Work Week

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.