With exceptionally high turnover, the company risks churning though available labor pool by 2024
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Forget sentience… the worry is that AI copies human bias
‘I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person.” So claimed a Google software program, creating a bizarre controversy over the past week in AI circles and beyond.
Feel the benefit: union workers receive far better pay and rights, Congress finds
Study shows unionized workers earn 10.2% more than non-union peers, amid wave of organizing at some of largest US employers
‘Workers are winning’: Colorado law hailed as important victory for public sector workers
Thousands of municipal workers have won the right to form unions but law stops short of allowing them to strike
Wage gap between CEOs and US workers jumped to 670-to-1 last year, study finds
Report on 300 top US companies found CEOs making an average of $10.6m, with the median worker getting $23,968
Wells Fargo employees pushing to organize union across bank’s workforce
Third largest bank in the US has faced a series of scandals, from fake accounts to mass overtime pay violations
Virginia Target workers seek to unionize amid surge in labor organizing efforts
Company has already reportedly pushed back by trying to use union dues as a tactic to deter workers from supporting the union
‘I cannot survive on $260 a week’: US retail and fast-food workers strike
Workers who bore the brunt of the Covid pandemic at billion-dollar companies such as Dollar General, McDonald’s and Wendy’s are leading a surge in action
Elon Musk praises Chinese workers for ‘burning the 3am oil’ – here’s what that really looks like
Musk’s comment comes as Tesla’s massive Shanghai ‘Giga-factory’ pushes its workers to the limit to meet production targets amid an ongoing pandemic lockdown there
From The Office to Severance: how the fictional workplace went from bad to worse
On International Workers’ Day, we chart the cultural changes from moments of humanity at Wernham Hogg to grim visions of a more brutal post-Covid reality
Workplace inclusion drives have almost trebled since BLM protests, survey shows
About half of minority-ethnic workers said their employer had taken action to tackle racism in past 12 months
Biden outlines new measures to support transgender people amid discrimination
US will support mental health measures for young people and easier self-identification on federal forms
Workplaces are in denial over how much Americans have changed
Employers are trying desperately to ignore that we’ve become fundamentally different humans
‘We’ll be heard’: California could grant fast food workers unprecedented power
The Fast Recovery Act would create a council of parent companies, workers, franchises and regulators to monitor pay, work setups
Happiness officers: does every workplace need to hire someone to bring the joy?
A lawyer at a top London firm has suggested recruiting a chief happiness officer. Could this be the answer to mid-life burnout and the great resignation?