-
9 votes
-
3.3 million Americans file for unemployment claims, shattering records
26 votes -
USPS needs 1,000 workers in the SF Bay Area to keep up with delivery demands
10 votes -
Telstra pauses job cuts for six months, will hire 1000 extra call centre staff
4 votes -
Suspension of visa processing for Mexican seasonal workers hits US farms, fisheries
7 votes -
Amazon raises overtime pay for warehouse workers
3 votes -
The software that’s being made available free to help with home working during the COVID-19 crisis
4 votes -
Childcare workers at SpaceX are afraid of the coronavirus spreading as Elon Musk forces them to stay open
9 votes -
Plenty of American workers aren't being told to work remotely—even though they could
8 votes -
Which workers are most vulnerable to the economic costs of COVID-19?
5 votes -
Facebook is giving $1,000 to all of its 45,000 employees
4 votes -
Denmark is helping those who can't work due to coronavirus – why isn't the UK?
4 votes -
Ford weighing shift reductions as UAW presses Big Three US automakers to close factories
5 votes -
Work From Home (WFH) Thread - March 16th, 2020
I suspect many of you are, like me, working from home today and in the near future. I thought that it might be nice to have a single thread where we can chat about WFH and our day to day lives...
I suspect many of you are, like me, working from home today and in the near future. I thought that it might be nice to have a single thread where we can chat about WFH and our day to day lives while self-isolating in order to feel a bit less isolated. If people think this kind of thing is a good idea, perhaps this can be a daily (or weekly o_o) thread.
Feel free to talk about:
- Day to day life at home
- What's on your agenda for work
- Your thoughts on self-isolating and quarantine.
- Casual talk that you might normally have with coworkers .
- Anything else! (Though of course, the rest of the site still exists)
I personally tend to get more work done while working from home as there are less interruptions in the form of meetings and informal breaks. So in a weird way I'm looking forward to this time in order to get quite a bit done. Still, it's hard not to get cabin fever.
How are you all doing?
19 votes -
Twenty-four video conferencing tips to go from telecommuting zero to hero
5 votes -
Apple’s COVID-19 response
8 votes -
Workers at Pacific Grove Hotel on leave without pay due to virus quarantine
5 votes -
Two nurses denied jobs as midwives in Sweden because of their refusal to perform abortions have lost their legal action against Sweden at the ECHR
10 votes -
Walmart sets emergency leave policy for 1.4M hourly workers
14 votes -
If the female employment rate across the OECD matched that of Sweden, OECD GDP could be boosted by over US$6 trillion, according to PwC's latest Women in Work Index
5 votes -
Supporting Google's extended workforce through the COVID-19 outbreak
6 votes -
Living without a living wage: At the ever-growing bottom of the American economy, a low-wage worker becomes a minimum-wage activist
10 votes -
How the working-class life is killing Americans, in charts
26 votes -
Because of Coronavirus, vendors are offering special videoconferencing deals. Here's a roundup of what's available
11 votes -
What happened when Tulsa paid people to work remotely
9 votes -
Companies are contracting out more jobs—that’s not great for workers
10 votes -
The problem with telling sick workers to stay home
7 votes -
How hard will the robots make us work? In warehouses, call centers, and other sectors, intelligent machines are managing humans, and they’re making work more stressful, grueling, and dangerous
18 votes -
The boss who put everyone on $70,000 minimum salary
22 votes -
BP worker sacked over Hitler parody video gets his job back
6 votes -
Silicon Valley ruined work culture
15 votes -
Garbage language: Why do corporations speak the way they do?
10 votes -
I spoke out against sexual harassment at Uber. The aftermath was more terrifying than anything I faced before
16 votes -
Four-day workweek's appeal goes global as bosses seek to boost profits and morale
22 votes -
Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks
9 votes -
The Great Google Revolt: Some of its employees tried to stop their company from doing work they saw as unethical. It blew up in their faces.
18 votes -
Germany: court rules sanctions on unemployment benefits unconstitutional
10 votes -
What do you do when asked to automate away other peoples' jobs?
At work there's a project that was originally pitched as an automated system we would build for a new client, and now the conversation has shifted towards automating away some data entry tasks for...
At work there's a project that was originally pitched as an automated system we would build for a new client, and now the conversation has shifted towards automating away some data entry tasks for an existing client. If the project is successful I would guess that some or all of the people doing the data entry tasks would be out of a job. And if it's a resounding success I would guess that the powers that be would be eager to apply it in other areas and potentially put more people out of jobs.
This project is in the very early stages of gathering requirements and whatnot so it's not really clear what exactly we're building or what my role in building it would be. But it involves a technology that's new to us (natural language processing) and often times I end up playing some role in a project that involves learning something new, even if it's just in some small way.
So yeah, I know automation replacing low-skill work is nothing new and if these jobs can be automated away, they will be sooner or later, but this is the first time I've been confronted with the idea of using my skills to put people I don't know out of a job and it sticks in my craw. Normally I love automation and interacting with new (to me) tech even if it's nothing groundbreaking and I'm just doing the plumbing to connect system A to interface B, but in the past it's always been in the name of freeing up people from tedious tasks so that they can do more interesting and more important work, rather than "freeing" them of their paycheck. So I'm finding myself adding this to the small but compelling pile of frustrations I have with this job and weighing it against the also-small but also-compelling pile of things I love about it.
Anyway, if you've ever been in a position where you were asked to automate away someone else's job, how did that go? What did you do?
If you haven't, what do you think you would do?
16 votes -
A novel way to prevent email overload
7 votes -
Working in science was a brutal education. That’s why I left
5 votes -
Confessions of a slaughterhouse worker
23 votes -
Kickstarter workers vote to form first union in tech industry
20 votes -
A group of agents rose through the ranks to lead the US Border Patrol, and now they’re retiring and leaving it in crisis
5 votes -
HQ Trivia, the top trivia game on the app store in early 2018, is ceasing operations and terminating all staff today
11 votes -
Busting the common misconceptions about working from home
10 votes -
No engineer has ever sued a company because of constructive post-interview feedback. So why don’t employers do it?
13 votes -
Costco capitalism
9 votes -
Extreme Silicon Valley: A 2:30 AM bus from Salida. Tech employees move all the way into the Central Valley. Private tech shuttles follow.
6 votes -
The strangest job listings in tech
4 votes -
The way we work is killing us - An interview with the author of Dying for a Paycheck
15 votes