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AI May Not Steal Your Job, but It Could Stop You Getting Hired

If you’ve worried that candidate-screening algorithms could be standing between you and your dream job, reading Hilke Schellmann’s The Algorithm won’t ease your mind. The investigative reporter and NYU journalism professor’s new...

The Pilots Delivering Your Amazon Packages Are Ready to Strike

Amazon deliveries could be headed for some turbulence in the new year. Pilots for US-based Air Transport International, a cargo airline that ferries Amazon packages from its fulfillment centers to airports nearer...

Innovation-Killing Noncompete Agreements Are Finally Dying

One of the most stunning twists in the recent five-day crisis at ChatGPT creator OpenAI came when some 95 percent of the company’s hundreds of employees threatened to quit. The staff planned...

Climate Activists Tell the EV Industry to Fix Its Filthy Supply Chain

As gearheads and auto industry suits streamed into the Los Angeles Convention Center Saturday for the LA Auto Show, they found themselves in the middle of a scene out of Squid Games....

Obamacare Call Center Staff Strike Over Steep Health Care Costs and Scarce Bathroom Breaks

Katherine Charles’ work days are relentless. She’s one of thousands of call center workers who help Americans find suitable health insurance as part of the Affordable Care Act, or ACA. Charles spends...

This AI Bot Fills Out Job Applications for You While You Sleep

In July, software engineer Julian Joseph became the latest victim of the tech industry’s sweeping job cuts. Facing his second layoff in two years, he dreaded spending another couple months hunched over...

Apple Store Workers Fear the Tech Giant Is Fudging Its Labor Practices Audit

In January, Apple agreed to let its board oversee an independent audit of its US labor practices after five investors with $7 billion in company stock raised concerns about the unfair treatment...

Ulku Rowe Is the First Google Employee to Beat the Company in Court Over Sexist Discrimination

Earlier this month Google executive Ulku Rowe became the first person to face Google in court over sexist discrimination since a 2018 mass walkout led the company to stop forcing employees to...

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