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A conversation with Airbnb’s Melissa Thomas-Hunt on creating a culture in which black employees can thrive
When it comes to online harassment protection, Slack is slacking off.
The behavior is necessary for advancement — but it takes a great psychological toll.
Facebook Inc. employees repeatedly chafed at what they viewed as anti-competitive or unethical practices by the company, internal chats show. But their concerns, voiced in 2012 and 2013, were overruled by senior managers including Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, who argued that the survival of the social network was more important.
Sophie Haskins, a software engineer, tells Motherboard how she decided it was time to quit her job at a tech company that contracts to ICE.
At the height of the Me Too movement, the message of the training seminar was "fix the women."
In an excerpt from his new book, Marc Benioff says he initially didn't believe any pay gap was pervasive in the first place.
Data & Society Researchers Jacob Metcalf, Emanuel Moss, and Founder and President danah boyd investigate the tensions that arise when adapting ethics initiatives at Silicon Valley tech companies. “By talking with people who are at the forefront of thinking through ethics from within the technology sector, we found that the commitment to ethics is in […]
Nearly a year after Google’s #MeToo walkout, a previously unreported internal document details dozens of employees’ stories of harassment and retaliation for reporting workplace issues.
Every social network might as well be LinkedIn.
Centering the debate on “consumer privacy” falsely creates dual identities with different protections for you the consumer and you the worker.
In a survey conducted by Girls Who Code, teen female engineers report that even their very first encounters with tech companies raised red flags.
Google's slippery ethics slope.
New technologies help companies monitor their workers’ every move. But do those data tell them anything useful?
“Over the last 5 years I’ve heard co-workers spew hateful words about immigrants, boast unabashedly about gentrifying neighborhoods, mockingly imitate people who speak different languages, reject candidates of color without evidence because of ‘fit.’"
Atlassian has implemented a new performance review strategy designed to give their workers a better evaluation of how they’re performing. The new strategy focuses more on whether an employee adheres to Atlassian’s values rather than how technically skilled they are. Atlassian’s global head of talent, Bek Chee, said the company […]
What does the chilling rise of hypersurveillance mean for your job?
Vocational awe is a serious risk in the info professions.
Technology enables employers to increasingly monitor their employees. This explainer by Alexandra Mateescu and Aiha Nguyen identifies four current trends in workplace monitoring and surveillance: prediction and flagging tools; biometrics and health data; remote monitoring and time-tracking; and gamification and algorithmic management.