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A Pinterest employee helped draft the law
At Google, a seemingly innocuous action can earn an employee the attention of the company’s corporate security department. For example, when Google wants to find out who has been accessing or leaking sensitive corporate information, the company often homes in on employees who are thinking about ...
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Why are fewer women promoted to senior positions than men? In a study of a retail chain, Prof. Kelly Shue and her co-authors found that women got higher performance ratings than men but were incorrectly judged as having less leadership potential.
Employees say Apple hasn’t done enough to protect their data.
After being stuck at home for 18 months, it's tempting to use your work laptop for fun. But your employer may be watching.
AI researcher and former Googler Margaret Mitchell spoke about ethics challenges at VentureBeat's Transform 2021 event today.
Drinking at work causes so many problems.
To encourage a human-centered workplace, we must rethink AI-driven automation, bossware, labor taxes, and corporate R&D.
While Fast Company found two-thirds of 42 tech firms it surveyed changed at least one policy in the wake of the racial justice protests, prominent Black tech workers and scholars believe that it’s too soon to know if the focus on equity will last.
Their experiences couldn’t be more different.
WARNING: This is relatively advanced reading on the topic of inclusion. We move pretty fast and assume you are familiar with a lot of basic and intermediate concepts in inclusion literacy. This pie…
Recent leaks suggest the company is starting to change.
I was sharing my coffee shops analogy for social media spaces, boundaries, power, and negotiating our personal digital networks recently and the person I was talking with asked me to write it down …
I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because nobody else ate the Hot Cheetos that were stocked in our free snack kitchen. Seaweed snacks were always empty. Nobody had those telltale…
Argyle says it provides access to employment and payroll history. Buying login details may fall afoul of U.S. hacking laws.
Employees reported a perceived pattern of women getting lower roles than men despite having better qualifications.
A school custodian says she was fired after refusing to put an app on her phone that checked her location, citing privacy concerns. As more people work remotely in the pandemic, "tattleware" that tracks employees’ productivity is on the rise, prompting lawyers to call for more protections.
Can Google be trusted to evaluate its own AI?
Google engineer Emi Nietfeld alleges she was forced to sit next to her harasser even after she filed an HR complaint.