Glassdoor Wants to Know Your Real Name

Glassdoor has a history of working to keep its users’ identities private, but there are concerns about these identity changes. “Glassdoor has been second to none in defending their user’s First Amendment rights,” says Aaron Mackey, a senior staff attorney with the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation. He represented a Glassdoor user in a … Read more

Dell Says Remote Employees Won’t Be Eligible for Promotions: Report

Michael Dell, the CEO of the technology company that bears his surname, has long been an advocate of remote work and not so long ago called it “the future of work.” But it seems that even Dell (the company), can’t help but follow the trend among technology companies suddenly convinced that in-office work is the … Read more

‘How to Get Away With Murder’ Actress Karla Souza Gives Birth to Daughter After 33 Hours of Labor

Karla Souza can breathe easy now. She’s now a mother to a new baby girl “after a marathon 33 hours of labor.” The How to Get Away With Murder star shared Friday on Instagram the long ordeal she went through before she could welcome her and husband Marshall Trenkmann’s third child, daughter Giulia. In her lengthy caption, … Read more

Ageism Haunts Some Tech Workers in the Race to Get Hired

The US economy is showing remarkable health, but in the tech industry, layoffs keep coming. For those out of work, finding a new position can become a full-time job. And in tech—a sector notoriously always looking for the next hot, new thing—some people whose days as fresh-faced coders are long gone say that having decades … Read more

Google Used a Black, Deaf Worker to Tout Its Diversity. Now She’s Suing for Discrimination

Hall says when she has access to an interpreter, they are rotated throughout the week, forcing her to repeatedly explain some technical concepts. “Google is going the cheap route,” Hall claims, saying her interpreters in university were more literate in tech jargon. Kathy Kaufman, director of coordinating services at DSPA, says it pays above market … Read more

Israel escalates its criticism of a UN agency in Gaza. It says 450 of its workers are militants

JERUSALEM — Israel ramped up its criticism of the embattled U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees Monday, saying 450 of its employees were members of militant groups in the Gaza Strip, though it provided no evidence to back up its accusation. Major international funders have withheld hundreds of millions of dollars from the agency, known as … Read more

Why Tech Job Interviews Became Such a Nightmare

Sasha Luccioni, an AI researcher in Montreal, responded to WIRED’s story to say it was “10,000 percent true!” She added that over-the-top interviews are a long-established problem in parts of the industry. During a past job search, she tweeted, one Big Tech company “made me do *12* interviews and a take-home assignment.” (Luccioni declined to … Read more

Elon Musk’s Battle with Swedish Unions Now Extends to Tesla’s Charging Network

For the past several months, Tesla has been locked in a battle of wills with the labor unions of Sweden. The company’s refusal to ratify a collective bargaining agreement with a small number of workers associated with the Swedish union IF Metall has led to boycotts by other regional unions, turning what should have been … Read more

Amazon Joins SpaceX in Fight to Declare U.S. Labor Board ‘Unconstitutional’

Amazon has broken federal labor laws repeatedly and has been accused countless times of being a terrible employer. As such, it should surprise literally no one that the e-commerce giant has joined a chorus of other craven corporations to claim that the National Labor Relations Board is “unconstitutional.” Top 5 Shopping Tips for Amazon Prime … Read more

A 5th worker confirmed dead in Italian construction site collapse as workplace safety sparks debate

ROME — Italian rescuers confirmed Saturday the death of a fifth worker after a concrete beam and layers of slabs collapsed at a supermarket construction site in the city of Florence a day earlier. “I’ve just been informed that rescuers are recovering the body of a fifth worker,” said Tuscany Region’s president, Eugenio Giani. Earlier, … Read more