Gig workers face a hidden challenge: constant surveillance & lack of control over their own data, stripping their power to see workplace issues.
Our new CHI paper advocates for empowerment via workers' access to self-surveillance tools📊✊
👉https://t.co/97nqLdjV9j
#chi2024
Honored to be featured on the cover of Wired Magazine in Spanish!
The magazine features our AI research at Northeastern and UNAM, pushing the boundaries to support workers. Immense thanks to my team, whose brilliance and dedication have been pivotal.
👉https://t.co/982VgZnfeU
In this new Harvard Business Review piece, @MonahanK, @pleonardi1, and I argue that our relationship with AI can be understood as 'coopetition': a race with and against machines in which both AI and humans need to foster competitive and cooperative skills https://t.co/JjsWRrDNxC
Congrats to Dr. @iisabelmun on successfully defending her PhD on the future of work!👷♀️
She investigated how gig work connects with gender+race. Her insights are more important than ever. It's been an honor to collaborate with her+her advisor, Steve Sawyer. Muchas Felicidades!!
Excited to celebrate Women's Day with my students & share news that we received funding to design human-centered AI interfaces & tools for Latina gig workers!
My lab is proud to be in the Feminist AI Network at the Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms
👉https://t.co/nGz4WKrXW5
I co-authored a paper with @AptlyDunn & @mhjarahi for the Digital Business journal titled: "Dynamics of flexible work and digital platforms: Task and spatial flexibility in the platform economy." I summarize our key findings here: https://t.co/lu2oMxPh6J
#flexibility#work#gig
LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky
"Pre-pandemic,~1% of all jobs posted on LinkedIn were remote. As of today, that number is ~14%...but that's not the fascinating part. What's fascinating is north of 50% of all job applications on a daily basis on LinkedIn go to that 14% of remote jobs"
Our #CSCW2022 paper, "Platform-mediated Markets, Online Freelance Workers and Deconstructed Identities," notes how labor platforms are impacting individuals' identity presentation-- breaking down workers into bundles of skills & ratings.
Brief Summary: https://t.co/4zgYhggMLp💡
What’s in a good job? 1) Economic Stability: #GoodJobs ensure workers can meet basic needs — healthy food, a safe place to live, healthcare, and other essentials — for themselves and their families. https://t.co/kJQbEibuWI #GoodJobsChampions@AspenJobQuality@FamiliesWorkers
This video highlights some of my research about how online freelancers build and manage their identity on labor platforms. 💻💻💻
I'll be presenting this work at CSCW 2022 this November: https://t.co/bhsxGJfzcc
#Thread
NEW: TikTok is massively expanding its fleet of content moderators in Morocco. Paid $1.60 an hour, thousands of workers sift through unspeakably graphic footage so it doesn't get to your 'For You' page
@majd_ai and I spent 4 months investigating ⤵️
https://t.co/b8WJnmAtkc
“Uber had been banned from the streets of Geneva after Switzerland’s highest court agreed its drivers [are] employees…Under a new agreement, drivers will now be employed by Uber’s Swiss partner companies and will receive the Geneva min wage” https://t.co/2gfL58I6Vw