Posts Tagged ‘employment’
[Worried about automation and high-tech unemployment, or gig economy labor apocalypses? Techdirt's Mike Masnick and the Copia Institute have pulled together an outstanding anthology of speculative fiction about better futures for work and workers, called Working Futures, which is just out. This kind of speculation-for-good is such a cool idea, and I'm delighted to ...
EFF has just posted a job listing for a development director, seeking someone to "take charge of EFF's eleven-person Development Team in their efforts to raise over $13 million each year," starting late 2019 or early 2020.
We’re looking for someone with these qualities:
Experience and confidence managing a team of dedicated development professionals
Experience working with ...
Uber -- a bezzle -- projected $8b in losses this year; but it lost more than $5b in a single quarter, and despite an initial stock price rise (dead cat bounce?) the company's shares have tumbled by more than 10% since, hitting an all-time low. Engineers who were scheduled to interview at ...
The clock slowly ticks from across the room as you sit staring face to face with another potential candidate for a highly significant position with the company. Management has gone through the process of deciding whether to hire internally or externally. Ultimately it is coming down to the best candidates for the job. With both ...
The looming threat of mass-unemployment driven by automation has been grossly overstated: while it's true that "truck driver" is one of the most common jobs in America, the vast majority of truck drivers are not long-haul drivers, which are the drivers at risk of having their jobs automated out of existence.
What's more, ...
Tech reporter and sf writer Brian Merchant (previously) calls our attention to the peculiar construction of the problem statement in articles about automation and obsolescence, in which "robots are coming to steal your job."
The thing is robots don't (yet) autonomously arrange to show up at your workplace, uninvited, and take your job. Instead, your ...
Back in January, an Ontario court ruled that Uber's arbitration clause couldn't keep its drivers from suing it; Uber has appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada, which has taken up the case and will hear arguments about whether arbitration clauses (through which the parties surrender the right to sue in court) are enforceable ...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is hiring a new staff copyright/trademark litigator, and "experience with or strong interest in patent, unfair competition, administrative law, privacy and/or First Amendment litigation is preferred but not required."
It's a junior position for litigators with 3+ years of experience, based in San Francisco. EFF is committed to diverse hiring and ...
Planning to hire a nanny? An effective investigation is possible with a background check. A background check protects you or your business. This article gives you info on background checking services. Background check services are helpful in finding information about a person. Mostly, the information needed is not readily available. The reasons for doing a ...
[[Editor's note: I was the Electronic Frontier Foundation's first-ever European Director, which was a crazy and amazing job at a time when the organization was much smaller; now EFF is much bigger, and international issues are a much bigger deal for us, with bad policy ideas ricocheting around the globe and needing a coordinated response; ...