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YouTube Contract Workers Are Going on Strike
Over 40 YouTube Music contract workers are protesting a return-to-office policy they say is unfair to remote workers.
‘I Had Nothing to My Name’: Amazon Delivery Companies Are Being Crushed by Debt
Across the country, Amazon's delivery service partners, the small businesses that exclusively deliver packages for Amazon, are going tens of thousands of dollars into the negative.
Google Contractor Alleges Disability Discrimination in Mass Email
A Google contractor alleged in a complaint to the New York State Division of Human Rights on Wednesday that she experienced retaliation and harassment from Google employees after she suffered a knee injury.
Baristas at Slack Say They’ve Won 90 Days of Severance
Faced with losing their jobs in the midst of the Coronavirus outbreak, a group of contracted baristas at Slack just won a big severance package.
Google Is Investigating Why it Trained Facial Recognition on ‘Dark Skinned’ Homeless People
Former workers reveal "questionable and misleading methods" used to obtain facial scans.
Google Contractors Are Unionizing With a Steel Workers Union
Part of Google’s “shadow work force” is unionizing in Pittsburgh.
The People Paid to Dox Airbnb Addresses
In response to a need to enforce short term rental legislation, an industry of companies has popped up tasked with finding the real addresses of Airbnbs and other properties.
Microsoft Contractors Listened to Xbox Owners in Their Homes
Multiple contractors working for Microsoft explain how they listened to audio captured by Xbox consoles.
Working on Microsoft’s Cortana Is Laborious and Poorly Paid
Leaked documents show that Microsoft’s contractors are paid between $12 and $14 an hour and are asked to transcribe as many as 200 audio clips per hour to train the Cortana virtual assistant.
Microsoft Admits Humans Listen to Skype and Cortana in Privacy Policy Update
The change comes after Motherboard found that Microsoft hired contractors to listen to some Skype phone calls.
America Wasted $160 Million Trying to Get Afghanistan to Use E-Payments
Will that be cash, charge, or bribe?