Collaborate Disseminate
With the last year changing how (and where) many of us work, organizations have started to rethink how well they manage their employees, and what tools they use to do that. Today, one of the startups that is building technology to address this challenge is announcing a major round of funding that underscores its traction […] Continue reading Personio raises $125M on a $1.7B valuation for an HR platform targeting SMEs
On Monday, Google employees and contractors in the United States announced the creation of a labor union with the Communication Workers of America. Continue reading Google Workers Publicly Launch Union
We don’t believe enterprises or consumers will revert to the old ways of doing things when the pandemic subsides. Welcome to the next phase of tech spending. Continue reading 3 ways the pandemic is transforming tech spending
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“If you do not feel comfortable coming into work, you can stay home and will be on unpaid leave,” Musk wrote in an email obtained by The Guardian. Continue reading Elon Musk Is Offering Tesla Workers a Deal: Violate California’s Stay-at-Home Order or Don’t Get Paid
Written notes from the meeting, attended by CEO Jeff Bezos, detail Amazon’s strategy to fight union organizing, as well as efforts to obtain COVID-19 tests and protective masks for workers. Continue reading Leaked Amazon Memo Details Plan to Smear Fired Warehouse Organizer: ‘He’s Not Smart or Articulate’
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) union has embarked on an ambitious national campaign to transform the tech and game industries for workers. Continue reading One of America’s Largest Unions Gets Serious About Organizing Game Developers
A contractor who has been working at the National Security Agency since 2017 has been charged with five counts of falsifying her timesheet, according to an indictment filed in the U.S. District Court of Maryland. The contractor, Melissa Heyer, allegedly filed hours claiming to have been working in a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF), meant to function as a highly classified work environment, when she was actually elsewhere. She allegedly filed these false claims on five separate occasions between May 2017 and July 2018. The false work Heyer claimed to have completed amounted to the government paying her and her company $100,000 in all, the indictment claims. The wages she falsely claimed to have earned amount to more than $7,000, according to the indictment. It wasn’t immediately clear if Heyer had admitted to the allegations in a review of her activity, or whether she denied or sought to cover it […]
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While much of the attention around California’s recently passed Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) has focused on the future for Uber and Lyft drivers, bug bounty contractors working in California could also argue they’re covered under the law when it goes into effect next year. California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sept. 18 signed AB5, which changes how employers can classify independent contractors and employees. Bug bounty firms rely on freelance hackers to use their platforms and identify or help mitigate software vulnerabilities. Many government agencies and Fortune 500 companies use the platforms — and the cheap labor that comes with it — as a way to close a portion of their cybersecurity gaps. The extent to which the law, which goes into effect Jan. 1, is applicable to bug bounty freelancers will hinge on an individual’s specific professional situation, employment attorneys told CyberScoop. Yet, the grey area in which these freelance […]
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Lizzo accused a Postmates courier of stealing her food, although the miscommunication was her fault. It’s a symptom of broader disrespect for service workers in precarious jobs. Continue reading It Doesn’t Matter if Your Food Is Late—Don’t Harass Your Delivery Person