IBM wants Congress to act “in pursuit of justice and racial equity,” CEO wrote.

Enaible is one of a number of new firms that are giving employers tools to help keep tabs on their employees—but critics fear this kind of surveillance undermines trust.

The brutal police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man in Minneapolis, has prompted one of the greatest civil uprisings of the modern day. In the weeks following Floyd’s death, the conversation around diversity and inclusion, as well as tech’s role in upholding white supremacy, has returned to the forefront.  But it is action, […]

You would be forgiven for thinking that the outbreak has seen companies forge new bonds of faith with their workers, and that this is an unexpected silver lining to the chaos wrought by COVID-19. B…

As we shelter in place in the pandemic, more employers are using software to track our work — and us.

The gender wage gap impacts millions of women throughout the US and world, with women in the US making on average 82 percent of men’s salaries (US Census Bureau, 2018). In research libraries, a field dominated by women, this has historically been true as well, with men rising to top positions at a higher rate and making more money than women in the same positions. Over the decades following the implementation of Affirmative Action, the number of women in administrative positions in research libraries has increased dramatically. This article explores the issue of women’s salaries in research libraries in five job tiers. The five job tiers group library positions based on power dynamic, with the first tier including positions that run academic libraries, through the fifth tier, which includes front-line positions. An analysis of data from the Association of Research Libraries from 1976 through 2016 demonstrates that, though women have made progress in obtaining higher-level positions, salary disparities continue to exist between men and women at all levels.

New research shows that when people need help getting a job done, they’ll choose a congenial colleague over a more capable one. That has big implications for every organization—and not all of them are negative.

With millions working at home, more companies want to know how employees are spending their time.

It’s not what most people think.

Overlapping chatter. Interruptions. Few nonverbal cues. For women, virtual meetings can mirror the inequities of in-person meetings.

Beyond the spotlight of the cybersecurity industry’s IPO-fueled paydays and reputation-making research lives the slow burn of daily anxiety. In just about every industry, mental health is overlooked and under-appreciated. But in cybersecurity, “it’s even more stigmatized,” according to psychiatrist Ryan Louie. “Nobody wants their security clearances or career advancements somehow impacted because of perceptions about mental health,” he told CyberScoop. And so Louie, who works at a 30-bed psychiatric ward in San Francisco, took to the 2020 RSA Conference, one of the biggest cybersecurity conferences in the world, to start a conversation about mental health. “We want to get more people [from] all different industries to start thinking about this,” Louie said after his presentation at the conference on Friday. Alert and bespectacled on stage, Louie explained why, as a psychiatrist who treats patients of all stripes, he became interested in cybersecurity. “Fundamentally, I’ve always felt that the most […]

How hard will the robots make us work?

From San Francisco's de Young Museum to the pages of a new wave of memoirs, the creative class grapples with the role of human labor in the tech industry.

Some of its employees tried to stop their company from doing work they saw as unethical. It blew up in their faces.

Welcome to the Mental Health Hackers online home! Our mission is to educate tech professionals about the unique mental health risks faced by those in our field – and often by the people who we Read more…

Report: The vast majority of interviewed CISO executives (88%) report high levels of stress, a third report stress-caused physical health issues, half report mental health issues.

Addressing inequality requires more than consciousness raising.

Do you want to protest your company’s crappy record on sexual harassment? Are you thinking of unionizing? Here’s the Motherboard Guide to Secure Labor Organizing.

Facebook, Google and other major tech firms were every student’s dream workplaces. Until they weren’t.